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It's not a license recognized my companies licensing software, so it's not a license to me.
by csours 8y ago
It's not a license recognized my companies licensing software, so it's not a license to me.
- Angostura 8y agoIt looks like your software isn't very good at recognising licenses.
- AckSyn 8y agoit looks like bureaucratic bs gets in the way as usual
- ada1981 8y agoIn addition, it looks like his cortex isn’t very good at parsing reality from the output of a piece of software.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- dylan604 8y agoWhy is this not in the spirit of HN? It’s not condescending, but yet still delivers that ‘je ne sais quoi‘[0] level of comment. [0] I had to duck it to get the correct spelling
- dang 8y agoUncivil comments will get you banned here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
- dragonwriter 8y agoThat's a defect of your software (and, perhaps more, your company's decision to use software as a source of truth on what is a license, rather than a tool for tracking licenses that deals with real-world licensing), not the license.
- gamblor956 8y agoYou're both correct. It's a license, but it's not a License. Legal departments don't want to go through the hassle of trying to keep track of hundreds of different licenses for relatively small things like fonts, so they require those sorts of resources to come with Standardized Licenses like CC or BSD.
- adrianratnapala 8y agoIf you have an internal process for respecting licenses, and that process is simplified by picking from a list, then that's probably fine. It just mean that this license is not one that you can use, there are many such licenses. If you belong to one of those companies that is sloppy with licensing, then you might end up using those fonts, and being legally constrained by the license, informal or not. Either way, it's a license, and that fact affects your options.