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Re:LaTeX Coffee Stains [pdf] (2021) by bmenrigh on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @11:46AM (#46528680)
A lot of people want to slap licenses on things without really thinking about what the license will do (or prevent), in practice.

I like the author's note about the license: "As we do not believe in imaginary property, this package belongs to the public domain."

I think it's much more common to see a Creative Commons license on this sort of thing.

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Re:LaTeX Coffee Stains [pdf] (2021) by viraptor on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:49PM (#46531558)
And even then, when people have good intentions they don't anyways know about edge cases. Please give things a licence in addition to placing it in public domain, because in some countries (like Australia) you can't release your rights that way.
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