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Re:Show HN: Primrose – A text editor that draws to Canvas by yodon on Saturday January 03, 2015 @09:09PM (#8832890)
You clearly get that licenses matter, but you've released your code under the worst of all possible licenses, namely "contact me for permission."

This is an easy one to solve, it just takes a moment to pick a real license for your project[1]. Real licenses are more than one sentence long because there are real issues that both licensor and licensee need to understand before they can go forward.

[1] http://opensource.org/licenses

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Re:Show HN: Primrose – A text editor that draws to Canvas by moron4hire on Saturday January 03, 2015 @09:15PM (#8832908)
If you look at the Github repository, you will see that I have a license file that specifies GPLv3. "Contact me" really only means "I haven't setup a site for you to buy a dual-license for non-FOSS projects yet, because the project isn't done".
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Re:Show HN: Primrose – A text editor that draws to Canvas by yodon on Saturday January 03, 2015 @09:42PM (#8832954)
awesome, I'd mention GPL3 in your README licensing section - so many projects lack any kind of license file that even when I thought I'd looked for one I missed it and walked away thinking you just had the vaguer statement.
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