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I must wonder just how large and self-evident must the mass or movement be before you'd deem it worth joining? Have a little peek at how much public domain sof
by arto 13y ago
I must wonder just how large and self-evident must the mass or movement be before you'd deem it worth joining?
Have a little peek at how much public domain software is already being produced daily on GitHub:
https://github.com/search?q=%22public+domain%22&type=Code&s=indexed https://github.com/search?q=%22public+domain%22&type=Code&s=...
Consider also that the majority of repositories on GitHub contain no license declaration at all, which should be a clear enough indicator of where these trends are going:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/18/github_licensing_study/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/18/github_licensing_stu...
Further, as explained in another comment, when even the most prominent and harshest former critics of public domain software (cf. Larry Rosen) have recently changed their mind and, if not exactly pushing the public domain as yet, at least see no problem with it, how much more could you want?
- steveklabnik 13y agoFirst of all, obviously, this is personal choice. Secondly, a mass of people _creating_ public domain software isn't the issue: the mass would be of people _breaking the laws of the jurisdiction in which they live by using public domain software as public domain even though it's not recognized_. Personally, I currently BSD/MIT all of my code, but am considering AGPLing it all from now on. I don't think that the negligible difference between BSD/MIT and public domain is worth _any_ headache at all; they're effectively the same from my viewpoint.