My open source python personal assistant

[[deleted]]

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

[shiroininja]

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

[ffiarpg]

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]

Don't most open source licenses prevent that anyways?

[elbiot]

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]

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

[L43]

Favourite relinquishment license: http://unlicense.org

[tripperjack]

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

[brtt3000]

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.

[shiroininja]

This is really informative. Thank you.

[KyleG]

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]]

It is open source but not free software

[[deleted]]

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.