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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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[–] JackbyDev 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh, I'm so sorry I believe projects should use more explicit licences over short ones like MIT. Apache is just more explicit than MIT. The only benefit I see MIT having over Apache is if your code base is so tiny that the Apache license like doubles the file size.

I believe a lot of devs value MIT because it is simple, but that doesn't necessarily make it good. Sometimes code needs to be complex. Licences are the same way. Prefer explicit licenses written by lawyers over simplistic licenses and crayon licenses.