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The Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License (WTFPL) is a free software license.

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

Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar
14 rue de Plaisance, 75014 Paris, France
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.

Source:
http://www.guardian.on.zoy.org/film/2008/aug/04/morgan.freeman.seriously.hurt.in.crash

LMOS

I never thought an LMOS post to /. would ever be on topic and not a troll. It's a sad day for trolling and American citizenship.

Sorry sir. You posted a meme, without actually looking.

http://goatse.cx/ is a LinkFarm, without the goats.

The "Successor to Nupedia" has more:
On January 14, 2004, the domain goatse.cx was suspended by Christmas Island Internet Administration for AUP[1] violations in response to a complaint, but many mirrors of the site are still available,[2] and the image is displayed on many websites.

(See more about complex bidding wars, etc.)

See this page for tributes.

http://sam.zoy.org/goatse/

I don't know, the wtfpl gives me permission to fornicate with the authors' mothers. I don't think public domain does that...

GNAA PWNZ J00

Apparently Sam is a debian developer of some major projects.

If you're interested, the links on the left at that page give some interesting depth of background. He has a long and interesting history.

Be careful with this stuff. The above link goes to his server and they can be changed at any time. They appear to be harmless at the time I'm writing this though. Some of the content is NSFW.

He's apparently a big deal in IT.

It's possible his server's been owned, but if somebody did that, they did a remarkably convincing job of integrating the bad into the good.

I'm torn here. Responsible geek reaches his dotage at the ripe old age of 30? Trolls have decided to reach over into illegal activity? Some combination of the above? I regret I lack the time and tools to look into it further.

We'll just have to be more careful.

Apparently Sam is a debian developer of some major projects.

If you're interested, the links on the left at that page give some interesting depth of background. He has a long and interesting history.

Be careful with this stuff. The above link goes to his server and they can be changed at any time. They appear to be harmless at the time I'm writing this though. Some of the content is NSFW.

He's apparently a big deal in IT.

It's possible his server's been owned, but if somebody did that, they did a remarkably convincing job of integrating the bad into the good.

I'm torn here. Responsible geek reaches his dotage at the ripe old age of 30? Trolls have decided to reach over into illegal activity? Some combination of the above? I regret I lack the time and tools to look into it further.

We'll just have to be more careful.

Time to add nimp.org to your hosts file. The link is an auto redirect from rds.yahoo.com to members.on.nimp.org. This is how Yahoo redirects search results to find out who clicked what. Yawho? search results are thus no longer safe to click. For best results, add rds.yahoo.com to your hosts file or equivalent blocker as well.

members.on.nimp.org resolves to poulet0.zoy.org. The IP address is [80.65.228.130]. Best to block that as well. The DNS administrator for this server is Slashdot User "Sam H", UID 3979.

Somebody at slashdot should have a look at our anonymous coward's IP address. It would be nice if we could quit this nonsense. I hope this isn't some troll that bought a low UID in the auction.

And maybe some slashdotter in Paris could call Sam and ask him to fix his compromised server. It does look like someone truly nasty took it over in August of 2005. Big Debian fan this one. Likes the GNAA routine and the whole bit.

I'm not certain about pinning this on Sam. sam.zoy.org resolves to a different IP. One of you intertubes wizards want to weigh in here?

Incidentally, a related question that someone raised with me in another discussion was whether you can, legally robustly, donate a work to the public domain. At that point, copyright would no longer apply, so a licence of any kind would be unnecessary to make a legal copy. However, try tracking down a law in any major jurisdiction that actually has an explicit provision allowing someone to voluntarily and permanently give up a copyright they hold and leave a work in the public domain, in the same absolute sense that it would be after any applicable copyright expired or for, say, government works that are legally public domain from the start. I've never found one, which raises the interesting (and somewhat scary) prospect that no-one can actually give away their work for free in a manner that any recipients can rely on, even if all parties wish this to be the case...

I believe this is pretty similar to the line of thinking that led to the WTFPL. "Public domain isn't always valid, so here's a license that does the same thing."

apparently he is an FOSS developer, perhaps he would like a reminder he is hosting a malicious site, good to see the Linux community is full of such nice people perhaps he doesnt care but i expect his ISP will his # +33 681122062 his ISP abuse@tiscali.fr

I don't know, but I imagine it will look a little like this

Why do we still have this battle of which license is most free? The only truly free license is the WTFPL:
http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/

http://libcaca.zoy.org/ , same thing, in color

http://sam.zoy.org/pwntcha/

Sadly, a goatse operating system already exists. (link is safe).

Yes I know who he is :).

Btw zoy.org isn't exclusively used by him even if it belongs to Sam, if you want to go to Sam's website, the proper URL is http://sam.zoy.org.

Yes he is somewhat of a troll and he's a GNAA member, a goatsex troll fan and certainly more, so what? He's also an excellent hacker and Free Software contributor (he played a major role in VideoLan/VLC which is now the best video player around here). What's more, his platform was the best. I for one am really satisfied with this year's DPL election.

Does it bother ANYBODY that Sam Hocevar is hosting shock websites that exploit vulnerabilities in web browsers?

http://doom3.zoy.org/ (WARNING: MAY CRASH OR EXPLOIT YOUR BROWSER!)
(note: zoy.org is the same website that Sam hosts his DPL campaign page as well! he does nothing to hide his dirty laundry!)
http://www.on.nimp.org/ (WARNING: MAY CRASH OR EXPLOIT YOUR BROWSER!)

proof in whois:

Domain Name:ZOY.ORG
Admin ID:SH12-GANDI
Admin Name:Samuel Hocevar
Admin Street1:22 rue de Plaisance
Admin Street2:
Admin Street3:
Admin City:Paris
Admin State/Province:
Admin Postal Code:75014
Admin Country:FR
Admin Phone:+33.681122062
Admin Phone Ext.:
Admin FAX:
Admin FAX Ext.:
Admin Email:2c0ca1b22053eeb086652f53faaacdd8-sh12@contac t.gandi.net

Domain ID:D82425367-LROR
Domain Name:NIMP.ORG
Admin ID:SH12-GANDI
Admin Name:Samuel Hocevar
Admin Street1:22 rue de Plaisance
Admin Street2:
Admin Street3:
Admin City:Paris
Admin State/Province:
Admin Postal Code:75014
Admin Country:FR
Admin Phone:+33.681122062

Here is a picture of our new Debian overload (whom I, for one, welcome), Sam Hocevar, puzzling over the latest bug.

Sam Hocevar won the Debian Project Leader election by 8 votes over Steve McIntyre

Having volunteered many hours of my time to the FSF, I can say that I'm no stranger to them, and I think GNU has contributed immensely to the goal of software freedom. I think that making Free Software a "movement" was a good idea, and it attracted many people, like myself, who think that we should remove artifical barriers to computation. However, I feel that with the GPLv3, the FSF has strayed from their goal. Let's face it, the GPLv3 puts more restrictions on what you can do with software, not fewer. I am of the opinion that once a piece of software is written, it shouldn't have to be rewritten except to improve or adapt it. GPLv3 forces certain people to rewrite because they aren't ideologically aligned with the FSF.

When I write a piece of software, I want it to be free. That's why I don't use the GPL anymore, and that's why I won't be using the GPLv3 in the future. Presently, I use the ISC license and the WTFPL.

The people on http://doom3.zoy.org/ are obsessed with books. ^_^

The people on http://doom3.zoy.org/ are obsessed with video games. ^_^

The people on http://doom3.zoy.org/this site are obsessed with Slashdot.

... made some developers actually work to hold back the release in protest...

Assuming that you're referring to http://dunc-bank.zoy.org/, your comment should be "made some developers actually work to discover more RC bugs thus holding back the release but producing a more stable resulting release " The way your original comment ius worded makes it sound like developers are delaying the release without any productive reason. I would say that regardless of motivation, discovering RC bugs prior to release is a good thing.

From the Dunc-Bank website:

The Dunc-Bank is an experiment to see how aggressive bug reporting can delay the release of Debian Etch.

We hope that by finding more and more RC bugs in Debian we can delay Etch. Dunc-Bank stands for "Delay until new critical Bugs are nastily killed". We think that overall quality is more important than keeping release promises others did for us. We also put "Bank" in the name because we love money. We actually wish we had some money to fund people who report RC bugs.

This activity didn't help the release date, but on the upside, the release will be more bug-free, secure and stable.

For more info see here
http://sam2007.zoy.org/
Believe it!

it's also extraordinarily difficult to use for low-vision people. Making your website inaccessible to people is not usually a good idea.

It's also easily breakable - there are scripts out there that can decode the common CAPTCHAs with >90% success.

This doesn't even include social engineering CAPTCHA breakers which are also known to exist e.g. spammer sets up a (say) fake porn site, hotlinks the CAPTCHA image of the site they want to spam. When someone comes along to fake porn site, it tells the user to enter the CAPTCHA. Once the user does this, they're shown some boobies, whilst the site fires off a spam to the site the CAPTCHA came from.

Don't get me wrong - CAPTCHAs are a useful tool, but not necessarily the best solution.

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

Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar
22 rue de Plaisance, 75014 Paris, France
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.

When free means completely free!

I wouldn't be too concerned about the name if the software does something useful

What about the WTFPL [1]:

[1] http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/

I'm not a programmer, so I don't know the details, but there are programs to do this with the required know-how. I remember that Sony's XCP DRM (remember the whole rootkit fiasco?) was discovered to be using parts of VLC's code. That's the only example I can name right now, but I've heard of at least three other similar discoveries.

http://sam.zoy.org/blog/2005-11-21-suspicious-acti vity-indeed

I wouldn't say it's "absolutely no effort." See this page for a whole bunch of broken captchas.

The only truly free license is public domain.

"Public domain" is not a license. It is the absense of copyright. This, strange as it may seem, can be less free than copyrighted with a liberal license: some countries don't permit authors to disclaim copyrights. If a country doesn't, the material is copyrighted, and no license is granted to distribute and/or modify it. The same effect as what is intended by simply "public domain" can be got using the WTFPL, Wikipedia's approach, or something similar.

Try this English assignment. You can learn a lot of things online, including some things you'd rather not know about...

The "Do What The Fuck you want to Public License" is truly the easest.

WTFPL text is here

Monsterz has Best Software License Ever. :O)

Yes, and yes. It's been done, too -- just off the top of my head, there's Monsterz, but there are other games using SVG graphics as well. Since SVG supports scripting via Javascript (given appropriate browser support), some people have even written games for the web in SVG directly. Browser support isn't widespread enough to make a Flash-killer yet, but if you're just rendering graphics for your own traditional game engine SVG graphics are certainly an option today.

For whatever reason, some women are just more comfortable with documentation (technical writing), UI design, or webpage development.

For example, it's obvious that this little girl has a knack for graphic layout rather than programming. Sometimes that's just the way it is.

LMOS is a minimalist operating system targetting multimedia presentations, written with simplicity in mind. Due to its tiny x86 assembly core, it easily fits on a standard floppy: just write LMOS and your pictures to a CD or floppy, and it will boot and play on any IBM-PC compatible computer.

LMOS is a handy tool to carry with you on a business card CD or an USB key. Also, instead of luring people to Last Measure mirrors or similar shock sites, you can simply hand them an LMOS CD with a "Knoppix" sticker on it.

http://sam.zoy.org/pwntcha/

How many were search engines, robots run by police agencies, bots from 0wned machines, and other automated programs? How many are from people following misdirected links like this fake latest patch to Windows [Goatse pumpkin].

Of the remaining, how many are from people trying to figure out what all the hubbub is about or 14-year-olds who are about to get their computer privilages yanked when mom and dad find out?

The intersting number is not 30,000, but how many people are looking for illegal sites for illegal purposes week after week after week.

There's also a proof-of-concept called PWNtcha (http://sam.zoy.org/pwntcha/ which can automatically work out a large number of common CAPTCHAs (including PHPbb and vBulletin's standard ones ) with well over 90% correct.

CAPTCHAs are NOT the best solution - they're just a band-aid, and they make your site harder to use ( especially for low vision people ). Personally I prefer web-server level blocking of dodgy UA's, IP ranges, POST payloads with something like the wonderful mod_security for Apache, coupled with word filtering ( Spamassassin or just a black list ).

He said in the summary that they have that. Catpchas can be decoded: http://sam.zoy.org/pwntcha/

Aren't DVD subtitles stored as images anyway, making font availability and coding irrelevant? A quick search turns up a page describing the DVD subtitle format.

Looking at the captcha right now, it doesn't look that hard to defeat to me.

True, there is PWNtcha, but one who relies on PWNtcha might get sued under the DMCA for circumventing the CAPTCHA.

I've wondered for some time now what would happen if someone would create a short clip of someone reading those various versions of DeCSS, possibly with a title scroll, encrypt the whole thing with CSS. Encrypt a copy of a CSS encryption program and a brute-force CSS key break, using a different key. Include a copy of DeCSS source code, and the key to the second file, and a notice that the contents are copyrighted, and that anyone who wants to decrypt the files is free to do so for any purpose other than suing someone for copyright infringement.

If the MPAA tries to sue you, sue them for violating your license, invoking the DMCA against them.

latestpics.tgz

I wonder if Sony's DRM screw-up and evidence that GPL'ed code was in their DRM software played any role in this rather firm approach.