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Theo's right of course. Paradoxically, projects on github flourish because contributors and users by in large ignore the licenses. Granted, licenses are extrem
by freedomtaco 10y ago
Theo's right of course.
Paradoxically, projects on github flourish because contributors and users by in large ignore the licenses. Granted, licenses are extremely important to protect intellectual property but nothing kills contributions to open source more than bureaucracy.
- tingol 10y agoWhat makes you think of all the things ignoring the licenses (citation needed) is the one that made github flourish?
- freedomtaco 10y agoI won't bother contributing to a project if I have to jump through hoops. The Github ecosystem removes these hoops. The license is a secondary concern for in-house software.
- tingol 10y agoI still don't see what you mean by this. All of the top projects on github have pretty clear licenses which are automatically accepted by you (the contributor). In fact if you choose not to specify a license your work counts as copyrighted (as per github licensing documentation). So Github doesn't really remove any "hoops".