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Can we please just be mature about the realities of licensing? It's serious business. In my experience the the worst licenses to deal with are the ones that la
by i386 13y ago
Can we please just be mature about the realities of licensing? It's serious business.
In my experience the the worst licenses to deal with are the ones that lawyers have not had a hand in specifying the language used (With the exception of anything that's been written by someone on retainer at Oracle).
It's not hard to copy a MIT or Apache license file into your repositories and push it.
- gojomo 13y agoSome people's disgust with the giant castles of complexity created by licensing is "serious business", too.
- glhaynes 13y agoI'd be sympathetic if there weren't already so many good licenses to choose from that express so many of the configurations that people might want. If you don't like MIT, BSD, (L)GPL, Apache, Creative Commons, public domain, ... what is it you need? Apparently it's something complex.
- tptacek 13y ago"Giant castles of complexity"? If you don't give a shit, just MIT license, or use the Public Domain Unlicense.
- gojomo 13y agoI'm a fan of both those, but clearly there are people who want to send a stronger and different anti-licensing message when releasing their own creations.
- conroy 13y agoThe MIT license is 167 words, hardly a "giant castle of complexity" $ cat mit.txt | wc 19 167 1065 $ cat bsd.txt | wc 10 219 1479 $ cat CC0.txt | wc 29 978 6384
- gojomo 13y agoIt's not their dissatisfaction with those particular (most-permissive) licensing choices that they are signalling. Rather, it's the tangled mess of other twisty-licenses and license-interactions and license-debates (like this one) that they've had to navigate. You're essentially suggesting they should just shut up and maximize others' convenience. OK, that's a valid opinion, and if their only goal is maximal reuse, CC0 is great. But their choice of crazy-ass license is an expressive act, like the coding itself, and you haven't established why your convenience trumps their other expressive goals.
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- anotherhue 13y agoSure, they're actually impressively short, but are we saying that all software devs must understand the state of IP law and its associated terminology and pitfalls? As an unfortunate side note, none of the licences you listed have any terms relating to patents, (unlike the apache licence, which is considerably larger) which is one more tangled-web that a dev has to think about.
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