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Free/open-source developers: what license(s) do you use, and why? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 2 years ago by PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 years ago

no license at all

I think the point of a license is to affirm user freedoms, and to make explicit that it is free to use.

If something public has no license, I would probably assume that it's proprietary (but not necessarily closed-source) and therefore is illegal to use without getting the author's permission. The default is that you in general can't use copyrighted material without the copyright owner's permission, save for fair use. In my view, this position is stupid and bad because it impedes freedom of information, but unfortunately this position is the law.