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Probably the default should not be None. There should be a mandatory license, either the Unlicense https://unlicense.org/ https://unlicense.org/ or something ev
by pmontra 2y ago
Probably the default should not be None. There should be a mandatory license, either the Unlicense https://unlicense.org/ https://unlicense.org/ or something even simpler ("this is public domain".)
- MoreMoore 2y agoTo expand on this a bit, in many places a software project without a license means that all rights are reserved by the author and that nobody else has any legal right to use it in any way. I'm not sure if unlicense/public domain would be a better default though. At the very least, that Github prompt should explicitly state with a warning what it means when you select "None" as the license. I think most people don't realize or know what it means for others who want to look at or use the project.
- numpad0 2y agoWasn't it MIT or something permissive long time ago? I felt prevalence of "it's marked as ___ but actually proprietary" might have influenced that