How to add the WTFPL license to my project?

Question

I have a project that will have free distribution, change, copy and whatever else comes up, and I saw that there is a license WTFPL that works that way.

In your site we have the text template to be inserted into the project, as can be seen below:

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

 Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <[email protected]> 

 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 FU** YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE 
   TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION 

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

My question is: I must change the date, name and email of the text or leave in the same way?

I ask that question, because if we look at the Showcase, we can see several examples with the same text, but also some with the change in the data, so this doubt.

Answer 1

Of course if this is really very important you should look for a lawyer.

If I can give you advice, I would use a license that is more (re)known and probably more "serious". I don’t see an advantage to using this. I prefer even one public Domain explicit, if any, even if this is not a good license from a legal point of view, than such a.

In my understanding it is to customize with your data (except the date of the license text itself). It is so in the most obvious licenses:

• MIT
• Apache
• BSD
• Artistic

With Randrade’s response, I see one more reason not to use this license. She’s confusing, misleading, needs to go after her documentation to know what that means, the opposite of what she tries to "sell".

Answer 2

No source is better than the official license website, so let’s see what it says about this.

In the FAQ page license, we have a "small" tutorial on how to add the license in your project, which follows two steps:

1º Have an original copy of the file in your project or refer to the file of the official website, ie with the data shown in the license: [...] 2004 Sam Hocevar < [email protected]>[...]. Usually the file is named after COPYING.WTFPL.

2º Add the declarations of the year and the author in your project.

Copyright © 2000 Your Name <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.

If for some reason the project does not have the file, reference this way:

Copyright © 2000 Your Name <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 http://www.wtfpl.net/ for more details.

In short, you should have both in your project or refer to the license website.

Maybe this picture explains it better:

To illustrate it better, this project at Github has an example of using the license.

For more information, see own website of the license.