> Should people be mind readers and figure out that they actually meant that you should not make 1:1 clones That’s the core problem of the “licenses are the al

> Should people be mind readers and figure out that they actually meant that you should not make 1:1 clones That’s the core problem of the “licenses are the alpha and omega of open source” crowd. I released my book How To Open Source (dot dev) with a license that doesn’t make it illegal to share with a struggling friend or an educator. It is CC (NC/SA) because there isn’t a license that perfectly describes my wishes and that was the best one. On the day of my announcement someone on /r/opensource took great glee in this loophole as they saw it. And proclaimed they would repost the whole thing in the announcement thread. Laurence Lessig, creator of the CC license, inherently saw communities as more than licenses. In his book Code he identifies Laws, norms, markets, and technology as influencing community behavior. While I agree you shouldn’t be a mind reader, we also cannot expect communities to be based on licenses and laws alone.