Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License (WTFPL) 3.0

Terms and conditions of WTFPL, version 3.0 By Leon Kidlat, Tue 1 Apr 2025

WTFPL 3.0 is a permissive license that lets anyone do what the fuck they want to do with a creative work or software licensed under it, without restrictions and conditions.

Images: WTFPL logo (png) and banner (SVG).

Text of WTFPL 3.0

DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE (WTFPL)
              Version 3.0, April 2025

Copyright 2025 Leon Kidlat <https://kidl.at/wtfpl-3.0>

The material is provided without warranty of any kind,
subject to the terms and conditions below regarding its
use, reproduction, modification, distribution or sale:

       0. Just do what the fuck you want to.

How to use WTFPL 3.0

To use this license for your own work, you may do any of the following:

Copy the text above, edit the copyright year, name and email/website, and distribute it with your work. If necessary, replace “material” with “software” or something similar.
Download and edit the WTFPL 3.0 text file, rename it something like LICENSE.txt, and distribute it with your work.
Include something like “Licensed under WTFPL 3.0” with your work, and link to this page (https://kidl.at/wtfpl-3.0/).

Structure of WTFPL 3.0

The provisions of WTFPL 3.0 are laid out in 10 short lines:

Line 1 specifies the name of the license and its abbreviation.
Line 2 specifies the version and when this particular version was written.
Line 4 specifies the copyright year, copyright holder, and contact (email or website).
Line 6 specifies that no warranty of any kind is provided.
Lines 7 and 8 specify the different ways that you may deal with the material.
Lastly, line 10 specifies the permitted conduct in dealing with the material.

01 DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE (WTFPL)
02               Version 3.0, April 2025
03
04 Copyright 2025 Leon Kidlat <https://kidl.at/wtfpl-3.0>
05
06 The material is provided without warranty of any kind,
07 subject to the terms and conditions below regarding its
08 use, reproduction, modification, distribution or sale:
09
10        0. Just do what the fuck you want to.

What changed in version 3.0?

Version 3.0 is significantly different from the previous versions in the following manner:

The previous versions’ provision regarding the copying, modification and distribution of the license agreement has been omitted.
A no warranty clause has been added.

There have been two versions of WTFPL over the years. Version 1 was written by Banlu Kemiyatorn in 2000, and Sam Hocevar codified version 2 in 2004, more than 20 years ago.

WTFPL 1.0

do What The Fuck you want to Public License

Version 1.0, March 2000
Copyright (C) 2000 Banlu Kemiyatorn (]d).
136 Nives 7 Jangwattana 14 Laksi Bangkok
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

Ok, the purpose of this license is simple
and you just

DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

WTFPL 2.0

        DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE 
                    Version 2, December 2004 

 Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net> 

 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified 
 copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long 
 as the name is changed. 

            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE 
   TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION 

  0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

The issue with both earlier versions is that you can’t do WTF you want to do with the license document, which sadly goes against the spirit, if not the text, of the license.

In Version 1, you can’t modify the license agreement.
In Version 2, you can’t modify the license agreement unless you change the name.

In version 3.0, the provision regarding the license document has been deleted altogether. Because if you can do WTF you want to do with the material/software, why the fuck can’t you do what you want to do with the license agreement?

Finally, a no warranty clause has been added to make WTFPL compatible to use with software, in case someone fucks up by using your code.

Kidlat News is WTFPL 3.0

Kidlat News content used to be licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

Not anymore.

It is now under WTFPL 3.0. That means you may still steal our stories as before, but you don’t even need to acknowledge where you stole it anymore. Heck, you can even duplicate the whole Kidlat News site in another URL and call it your own.

Just do what the fuck you want.