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Licenses are boring but you really need one! (distractedmind.home.blog)
submitted 4 days ago by snaggen to c/programming
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It seems people have a hard time understanding the implications of licenses, so I have written a something to help with that.

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[–] Colloidal 20 points 4 days ago

I like how you describe the Don't Care licenses, aka permissive licenses. A lot of people fall for the narrative that more strict licenses are a burden for other open source developers, and then regret their decision when Evil Corp does what they usually do.