I disagree somewhat with the anti-license manifesto mentioned in the tangents. The one here: https://www.boringcactus.com/2021/09/29/anti-license-manifesto.html

I disagree somewhat with the anti-license manifesto mentioned in the tangents. The one here: https://www.boringcactus.com/2021/09/29/anti-license-manifesto.html https://www.boringcactus.com/2021/09/29/anti-license-manifes... Problem is, if you do not license your software, then under existing 9th Circuit precedent it is illegal to use your software - for any purpose. You are creating a trap to be sprung on people who don't understand the law. Is the US legal system anti-justice, at least in the sense that the adversarial model of courts breaks down when applied to power disparities[0]? Absolutely. Is worrying about copyright at best a detour, in the sense that copyright has nothing to do with justice except to protect a certain few from a specific kind of exploitation? Yes. But we still need to at least pay lip service to it, if only to protect your users from being sued by you. "You", in this case, is maximally extended to not only every "you" that might exist in the future, but even people who may wind up inheriting your estate in the far future - which isn't far enough to cover the expiration of the copyright. You - as in, not you, but You - can stomp in at any time and sue individual users for large sums of money they can't pay, even if they merely ran the program. This isn't a hypothetical. The way that people share (freely-licensed and otherwise) software puts a target on them, and the system occasionally takes the shot[1]. For as long as copyright applies to the air we breathe, we have to worry about it. [0] Copyright trolling is a good example of why adversarial court systems don't work when parties are not on a level playing field [1] https://torrentfreak.com/comcast-subscriber-receives-dmca-notice-for-downloading-ubuntu-210526/ https://torrentfreak.com/comcast-subscriber-receives-dmca-no... https://torrentfreak.com/paramount-wipes-infringing-ubuntu-torrent-google-160909/ https://torrentfreak.com/paramount-wipes-infringing-ubuntu-t...