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A comment on Bruce Perens: Building a 'billion dollar' startup with Crystal and Lucky [video].

Re:Bruce Perens: Building a 'billion dollar' startup with Cr... by Doctor_Fegg on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:00PM (#27988141)
Your regular reminder that there is already a permissive licence that effectively prevents use by megacorps: WTFPL. Google won’t touch software licensed with it and Intel have also refused it in the past. And yes, you can add a “no warranty” disclaimer in your readme too.
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Re:Bruce Perens: Building a 'billion dollar' startup with Cr... by vintagedave on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:12PM (#27988309)
> a permissive licence that effectively prevents use by megacorps

_Why_ do mega corps like Google and Intel refuse to use it? There's nothing on Wikipedia [0], and the license is extremely short and clear.

From your description I expected a license that explicitly denies permissions for certain purposes or types of companies. It's very much the opposite of that! :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL

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Re:Bruce Perens: Building a 'billion dollar' startup with Cr... by BrucePerens on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @08:28PM (#27991425)
If it's not meant more as a joke than anything else, it should be.
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