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+## Context
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+Repository currently has no LICENSE file. The user wants to adopt the WTFPL (version 2, December 2004) — the most permissive license commonly recognized: it imposes no restrictions beyond not changing the name of the license itself if modified. The verbatim text is short (under 20 lines) and is maintained at <http://www.wtfpl.net/>.
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+## Goals / Non-Goals
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+
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+**Goals:**
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+- Ship an unambiguous, maximally permissive license.
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+- Use the canonical WTFPL v2 wording verbatim (avoid modifying the license body, per its own terms).
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+- Make the license discoverable: top-level `LICENSE` plus a README mention.
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+
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+**Non-Goals:**
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+- Add SPDX headers to every source file. WTFPL does not require per-file notices; a repo-level `LICENSE` is sufficient.
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+- Relicense any vendored dependencies. `github.com/fatih/color`, `gopkg.in/yaml.v3`, `github.com/mattn/go-isatty`, `github.com/mattn/go-colorable`, and `golang.org/x/sys` retain their own (MIT/BSD-family) licenses; WTFPL only governs original code in this repo.
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+- Add a copyright-header linter or CI check.
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+
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+## Decisions
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+
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+### 1. Filename: `LICENSE` (no extension)
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+**Decision:** Place the license at `./LICENSE`.
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+**Why:** This is the path GitHub, pkg.go.dev, and most license scanners look for. Using `LICENSE.txt` or `LICENSE.md` works but is less conventional for single-file licenses.
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+
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+### 2. Exact body
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+**Decision:** Use the standard WTFPL v2 text with a single project copyright line, omitting the upstream Sam Hocevar attribution. WTFPL's own clause permits modifying the license document as long as the name is not changed; replacing the upstream copyright with the project's is common practice among adopters. Final body:
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+
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+```
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+ DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
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+ Version 2, December 2004
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+ Copyright (C) 2026 kotoyuuko
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+ Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
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+ copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
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+ as the name is changed.
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+
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+ DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
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+ TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
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+ 0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
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+```
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+**Why:** Keeps the LICENSE file minimal — exactly one copyright line, pointing at the project author. WTFPL's "copy and distribute… modified copies" clause explicitly covers this edit.
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+**Alternatives considered:** Keeping Sam Hocevar's original copyright line as a second line — technically more conventional but visually noisy and unnecessary (the author explicitly requested a single line).
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+
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+### 3. README section placement
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+**Decision:** Append a short `## License` section at the bottom of README.md, after "API":
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+
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+```markdown
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+## License
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+
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+This project is released under the [WTFPL v2](LICENSE) — Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License. Use it however you like.
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+```
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+
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+**Why:** Conventional README footer position; avoids disrupting the existing section flow.
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+**Alternatives considered:** Adding a shields.io badge near the title — not worth the HTML clutter or external asset dependency for a single-repo change.
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+
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+### 4. No per-file notices or go.mod changes
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+**Decision:** Do not add SPDX-License-Identifier comments to Go source files; do not add anything to `go.mod` (Go's module system doesn't track licenses there).
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+**Why:** WTFPL doesn't require per-file headers; `go list -m` and pkg.go.dev pick up the LICENSE file automatically.
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+
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+## Risks / Trade-offs
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+
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+- **WTFPL is not OSI-approved.** Some corporate policy scanners reject it. *Mitigation:* the user explicitly chose it; this is a personal/hobby-scale CLI where that trade-off is acceptable. Users who need a stricter posture can fork.
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+- **Copyright-year staleness.** `Copyright (C) 2026` will feel dated next year. *Mitigation:* year ranges aren't required; we'll add a year range (`2026-2027`) or move to a single "current year" convention in a future change when it matters.
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+- **License text not verbatim from wtfpl.net.** We replaced the upstream copyright line with the project's own. *Mitigation:* WTFPL's own terms permit "verbatim or modified copies of this license document" as long as the name isn't changed, which it isn't.
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+## Migration Plan
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+
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+N/A — new file and a README addendum. No runtime impact, no rollback complexity. Downstream consumers who had forked before this commit were already under implicit "no license = all rights reserved"; WTFPL strictly broadens what they can do.
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