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An open source license to increase your street credibility
- tptacek 13y ago'DannyBee, an attorney specializing in OSS licensing and, just to make me feel worse about my life, expert compiler toolchain hacker, does not like these licenses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733050#up_5733477 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733050#up_5733477 Two big problems, whether your "cool" license says "maybe give me a beer" or "what the fuck ever": 1. Risk to users: when a license makes answers to questions implicit rather than explicit, that license potentially leaves it up to a judge to decide what the "reasonable" terms of the license are, and resulting enforced terms might not be the ones you want. 2. Risk to the developer: the obnoxious all-caps disclaimer of warranty is there for a reason. The law says warranty disclaimers need to be conspicuous. Leaving it out altogether makes it possible for you to get sued --- as I understand it, you might probably win that suit, but being vague about your license might make it harder to get that suit dismissed up front.
- lukaseder 13y agoI absolutely agree. The ASL 2.0 is much better for anyone who doesn't care too much than these "cool" things