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Java runtime metadata analysis
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Copyright #230

Open jcgjunge opened 6 years ago

jcgjunge commented 6 years ago

Missing copyright statement. To use WTFPL, you have to include the following statement in your COPYING file:

Copyright © 20XX your@address This work is free. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See the COPYING file for more details.

Source: http://www.wtfpl.net/faq/

Can you add this, else we are not allowed to use your work in any way, even if the license is allowed.

HRHDaniel commented 5 years ago

Reading that faq, it appears that the statement you reference is used where ever else the copyright notice appears so as to direct the reader to the COPYING file. The COPYING file included appears to match exactly the example given on that faq. Is there something I'm missing?

jcgjunge commented 5 years ago

As i'm reading step 2, you need to add the extra text to your copyright statements, which often are found as a comment in the top of all your code files. Alternatively you can put it in a separate file - Apache Commons projects always puts it in a Notice.txt file.

Tried to find an example from some one using this license according to the defined rules, and must admit I was not able to :(

The reason for this extra text is to put your name and e-mail inside the finished product, and thereby "stamping" it as yours. The COPYING.txt only tells me who wrote the license, and not who "owns" the code.

And yes, I see the irony of this being a problem with this license, which pretty much just wants people to use the code :)