Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger

Re:Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger by ventana on Thursday June 11, 2026 @04:17AM (#48487708)

Besides other fun things about this license, using it effectively forbids Google employees to send patches to your projects. [1]

[1]: https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/patching#f...

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Re:Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger by jareklupinski on Thursday June 11, 2026 @07:24AM (#48488889)

TIL

> The Hippocratic License is an ethical software license created to ensure that open source software is not used for harmful purposes, aligning with human rights principles

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Re:Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger by wvbdmp on Thursday June 11, 2026 @04:46AM (#48487893)

The paragraph doesn’t really explain the rationale for forbidding WTFPL and even Public Domain and CC0? They’re all fine for commercial use, aren’t they?

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Re:Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger by Hugsbox on Thursday June 11, 2026 @07:31AM (#48488943)

Only a guess, but it could be because WTFPL is effectively very similar to having no license at all from what I gather

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Re:Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger by andai on Thursday June 11, 2026 @04:54AM (#48487937)

I thought they were basically BSD/MIT but even less annoying.

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