{"id":"WTFPL","title":"WTFPL","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdx/license-list-data/main/text/WTFPL.txt","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"corrected","summary":"The record models a license whose only operative term is \"You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.\" Eleven permissions, no prohibitions and no duties is exactly right; it is the only record in the library with that shape and the family conventions checked before the review both list it as an intentional exception. The SPDX id was missing.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"minor","field":"spdx:licenseId","description":"Added the SPDX list id WTFPL.","action":"applied","change":"spdx:licenseId \"WTFPL\" ;\n"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:permission","description":"Added odrl:grantUse. Term 0 grants everything without reservation, and passing the rights on to a third party is part of \"what the fuck you want to\".","action":"applied","change":"odrl:permission [ a odrl:Permission ;\n        odrl:action odrl:grantUse ] ;\n"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:duty","description":"No duty is correct. The one condition in the text, \"changing it is allowed as long as the name is changed\", applies to the license document itself, not to works licensed under it, so it is not a duty of the licensee of a work.","action":"none"},{"rubric":1,"severity":"minor","field":"cc:legalcode","description":"cc:legalcode points at http://www.wtfpl.net/about/, an explanatory page. The text itself is at http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/COPYING. Left alone because the about page does reproduce the license.","action":"proposed","change":"cc:legalcode <http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/COPYING> ;\n"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:target","description":"The asset collection lists software, dataset and creative work. The license is media neutral, so all three are right.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"minor","field":"record","description":"Standard-license addition of 2026-09-15, decision 9 and 10: the record was corrected against its new siblings and versioned. Library convention 14: dct:publisher was the placeholder 'N.N.'; the text names Sam Hocevar as the author of the licence, not a steward of it, so the predicate is left out.","action":"applied"}],"family":"MIT, ISC, Zlib, Boost, UPL, WTFPL (permissive, short)","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"notes":"Public-domain-equivalent. Correctly modelled with no duty and no prohibition."}