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Minor point: the source code for this website is available from http://www.arclanguage.org/arc3.2.tar http://www.arclanguage.org/arc3.2.tar (see news.arc) and i
by geofft 7y ago
Minor point: the source code for this website is available from http://www.arclanguage.org/arc3.2.tar http://www.arclanguage.org/arc3.2.tar (see news.arc) and is free software under the artistic license.
Other than that, yes, agreed - despite the name "Hacker News," this forum is run by and for the subset of the hacker community that has a vested interest in monetizing software itself.
- sneak 7y agoIt is my understanding that HN is a fork of that code and is not released.
- geofft 7y agoOh, I definitely assume that, but I'm on the side of "you should be permitted to release / reuse source" and less so on the side of "you should be obligated to release source." (That is, I see software copyright as a thing we should fundamentally not have just like software patents, and I see the GPL's copyleft approach as useful in a world with copyright law and I gladly write GPL software because we live in that world, but I don't think it by itself is justification to retain the leverage of copyright.)