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I usually just put some text to the extent of "this code was written by myself for myself and I'm really not looking for pull requests" in the README.
by WJW 5y ago
I usually just put some text to the extent of "this code was written by myself for myself and I'm really not looking for pull requests" in the README.
- capableweb 5y agoIf you get tired of repeating yourself, do what I wrote about in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28663996 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28663996 and just use the MIT license. It has all of this outlined explicitly already.
- WJW 5y agoI see what you mean, but in my experience most people will at least skim the README while they ignore the license entirely. So, by putting it in a clearly visible position in the README (say just below the repo title) I catch a few extra people and prevent them from sending in issues/PRs in the first place. It's also not like it's a lot of work, a 30 seconds one-time investment in my time is less time than I spend on most HN comments.