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A credit-to-author clause has been tried before by the tech community, and IMO it's up to the community and not an individual author to develop a license which
by threatofrain 6y ago
A credit-to-author clause has been tried before by the tech community, and IMO it's up to the community and not an individual author to develop a license which fits. The reason is because any modification to a well-known agreement makes your license very expensive to understand, even if it's a trivial modification.
Open source licenses only work because the community adopts them as a standard.
- another-dave 6y agoI'd agree with this — with things like Creative Commons it's very clear if someone is asking for attribution or not, if it allows non commercial etc. In an enterprise company, it's _much_ easier to use something with an established licence. Having "MIT with attribution" might be waved through by a standing policy. Having "my custom MIT fork" needs Legal involved & may not be a hill to die on so just get ditched instead.