Re:“Good Luck with That” Public License
by _ph_ on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:50AM
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Another joke license... somewhat funny, but I dearly hope, no one considers using it for any code. If you think, your code should be thrown away, please don't spam hosts like Github with it. But if you don't want to throw away your code, and in my experience, most code has a value, then please publish it under one of the well-known licenses. I think it is one of the great features of Github, that on creation of a repository, it offers you to attach one of the well-known licenses to your project. This ensures that your code can be used without creating legal pitfalls and does not get lost.
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Re:“Good Luck with That” Public License
by Someone1234 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @12:01PM
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> please don't spam hosts like Github with it
Huh? A GitHub repository is akin to a personal website. Why shouldn't people put their personal doodles, experiments, and silliness on it?
If you pay for your web site, feel free to do what like. With places like Github, things become a bit more complex. First of all, I assume you are not paying for those repositories. So I think it is decent to not randomly waste such a free offer. It also makes it more difficult to search for serious projects, if it is full of spam.
On the other side, in my experience, there is almost no code, which is so silly that it is useless. Quite the contrary, a lot of my best code pieces started with some sillines. It is sad, if code, which the creator made the effor to upload, is wasted, because of a poor license choices.
Exactly... These licenses only serve to make open source management more difficult. There are plenty of licenses that are already great at making your code open, and that are already accepted across the landscape.
Stop making new, stupid licenses. https://www.opensource.org
Plenty of good licenses there.
Re:“Good Luck with That” Public License
by baud147258 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @12:00PM
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> [Github] offers you to attach one of the well-known licenses to your project
Is this recent? I can't remember being able to do it last time I created a project, which was a few years ago.