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WTFPL

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WTFPL

Summary

WTFPL is a public-domain-equivalent license[1]. WTFPL draws 268 Wikipedia views per month (public_domain_equivalent_license category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • WTFPL authored Sam Hocevar[3].
  • WTFPL's instance of is recorded as public-domain-equivalent license[4].
  • WTFPL's instance of is recorded as free software license[5].
  • WTFPL's instance of is recorded as anti-copyright notice[6].
  • WTFPL's logo image is recorded as WTFPL logo.svg[7].
  • WTFPL's software version identifier is recorded as 1.0[8].
  • WTFPL's software version identifier is recorded as 2[9].
  • WTFPL's Commons category is recorded as WTFPL[10].
  • +2000-03-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of WTFPL[11].
  • WTFPL's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0fr82n[12].
  • WTFPL's has edition or translation is recorded as WTFPL Version 2[13].
  • WTFPL's has edition or translation is recorded as WTFPL Version 1.0[14].
  • WTFPL's approved by is recorded as Copyfree Initiative[15].
  • WTFPL's approved by is recorded as Q48413[16].
  • WTFPL's approved by is recorded as Debian Free Software Guidelines[17].
  • WTFPL's approved by is recorded as Fedora Project[18].
  • WTFPL's official website is recorded as https://www.wtfpl.net[19].
  • WTFPL's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Software using the WTFPL license[20].
  • WTFPL's spoken text audio is recorded as English Narration of WTFPL.mp3[21].
  • WTFPL's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'WTFPL'}[22].
  • WTFPL's different from is recorded as WTF[23].
  • WTFPL's different from is recorded as Rien à branler[24].
  • WTFPL's FOLDOC ID is recorded as WTFPL[25].

Body

Works and Contributions

WTFPL authored Sam Hocevar[3].

Why It Matters

WTFPL draws 268 Wikipedia views per month (public_domain_equivalent_license category, ranking #1 of 1).[2] WTFPL has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] WTFPL is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . copyfree.org. copyfree.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . SPDX License List. Retrieved . gnu.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . fedoraproject.org. fedoraproject.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . SPDX License List. Retrieved . spdx.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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