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I have just uploaded myself (my DNA) to GitHub, which license should I choose?

6 points by 0x77dev 2y ago

0x77dev 2y ago
https://github.com/0x77dev/dna https://github.com/0x77dev/dna This repository will include more content in the future, but for now, it contains a simple text file with my DNA. I have added a legal blurb, and I want the repository to be open-source, but I am having difficulty choosing an appropriate open-source license for it. Any suggestions?
pavel_lishin 2y ago
I don't think the right person is asking the question. Your parents are the ones who created that DNA, and thus they hold all rights to it. /s
- dsq 2y ago
  If that is the case, then four grandparents are the owners, eight great grandparents, etc. After a while they begin to overlap with other people's ancestors, thus making billions of others part owners of each other's DNA.
lioeters 2y ago
Public domain, or WTFPL. Clone, mutate, multiply. See you in a few years when your slime-mould offspring have become the dominant species on the planet. > Commit 2956452 - Jul 15, 2024. feat: upload personal source code (3 billion years in the making) - add genome.txt: The ultimate spaghetti code - include README.md: User manual for this meat computer - WARNING: Compiling may result in a mini-me. Proceed with caution! https://github.com/0x77dev/dna/commit/2956452c05731bc09c7396632e248c119340dd9f https://github.com/0x77dev/dna/commit/2956452c05731bc09c7396...
Zambyte 2y ago
Attaching a copyright license to DNA is meaningless. Any license is as good as no license.
- 0x77dev 2y ago
  well r/opensource reddit mods disagree: https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1e3m6bc/i_just_uploaded_myself_to_github/ https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1e3m6bc/i_just_...
  - Zambyte 2y ago
    Are you sure? It sounds like they agree to me. You posted something that is unrrlated to copyright in a subreddit about copyright, so they removed it.
pabs3 2y ago
You don't own copyright to your DNA, so you can't grant a license for it.

6 points by 0x77dev 2y ago

https://github.com/0x77dev/dna https://github.com/0x77dev/dna This repository will include more content in the future, but for now, it contains a simple text file with my DNA. I have added a legal blurb, and I want the repository to be open-source, but I am having difficulty choosing an appropriate open-source license for it. Any suggestions?

pavel_lishin 2y ago

I don't think the right person is asking the question. Your parents are the ones who created that DNA, and thus they hold all rights to it. /s

dsq 2y ago
If that is the case, then four grandparents are the owners, eight great grandparents, etc. After a while they begin to overlap with other people's ancestors, thus making billions of others part owners of each other's DNA.

lioeters 2y ago

Public domain, or WTFPL. Clone, mutate, multiply. See you in a few years when your slime-mould offspring have become the dominant species on the planet. > Commit 2956452 - Jul 15, 2024. feat: upload personal source code (3 billion years in the making) - add genome.txt: The ultimate spaghetti code - include README.md: User manual for this meat computer - WARNING: Compiling may result in a mini-me. Proceed with caution! https://github.com/0x77dev/dna/commit/2956452c05731bc09c7396632e248c119340dd9f https://github.com/0x77dev/dna/commit/2956452c05731bc09c7396...

Zambyte 2y ago

Attaching a copyright license to DNA is meaningless. Any license is as good as no license.

0x77dev 2y ago
well r/opensource reddit mods disagree: https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1e3m6bc/i_just_uploaded_myself_to_github/ https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1e3m6bc/i_just_...
- Zambyte 2y ago
  Are you sure? It sounds like they agree to me. You posted something that is unrrlated to copyright in a subreddit about copyright, so they removed it.

pabs3 2y ago

You don't own copyright to your DNA, so you can't grant a license for it.