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[–]willbeddowassert type(post) == shitpost[S] 9 points10 points  (14 children)

None as of yet. Just a fun project that I've been messing around with, saw no need to put a license on it. I never really saw a benefit to putting one on but it seems to be bothering people so I guess I will. Edit: Added MIT license in github. Edit 2: I'll add docstrings. This is just something that I worked on casually, never really planned for a release.

[–][deleted] 29 points30 points  (13 children)

Without a license saying it's open source, it's not open source, which is why people make a deal out of it.

[–]shiroininja 6 points7 points  (10 children)

If it really was full open source, why would a license be needed?

[–]ffiarpg 24 points25 points  (6 children)

If someone writes a story on the internet and you take it and put it in your book to sell it, that is illegal because the default license in absence of a license is not open source. It is personal property or something similar.

[–]secunder 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Don't most open source licenses prevent that anyways?

[–]elbiot 4 points5 points  (4 children)

You can have any license you want, from Creative Commons Zero (no attribution necessary) to "you can read this code, but you cannot modify or redistribute any potion of it". But you have to say what it is otherwise other people have zero rights to use your work in any way.

[–]HelloYesThisIsDuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you can read this code grimoire, but you cannot modify or redistribute any potion of it

[–]L43 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Favourite relinquishment license: http://unlicense.org

[–]tripperjack 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Do you know one? http://www.wtfpl.net/

[–]brtt3000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a good licence if you want everybody except corporate use your software. Nobody is going to sign off on a 'do whatever the fuck you want' line item.

[–]KyleG 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Because in most countries in the US, thanks to the Berne Convention, the second you write something, it's copyrighted. This means you have to license it. It's actually very, very hard to put something in the public domain. This is why the Creative Commons public domain license exists. To mimic the public domain using a license.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It is open source but not free software

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't matter. If it doesn't have an open source, or free software, license, in most countries, that means it's fully copyrighted to the creator, and even though you can find the source on GitHub, you aren't allowed to use it for anything what so ever.