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Comment by tptacek

13 years ago

It's sad that Crockford wrote a piece of code and gave it away for free in such a way that some people feel they can't use it? How much sadder than all the code every YC company writes and doesn't publish at all?

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monochromatic  13 years ago

If others are encouraged to make similar "jokes," yes.

  • tptacek  13 years ago

    So, just to be clear, your take is that the authors of software are not in fact entitled to use whatever license they please?

    • monochromatic  13 years ago

      Obviously they are, and I don't think anyone here is arguing otherwise. Are you focusing on that point because it's the only one that makes this seem acceptable?

      The question is whether it is harmful to free software to put unfunny non-jokes like this into licenses. The answer is "yes, it is."

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    • lucisferre  13 years ago

      How is anyone making that argument? From what I can see all people are saying is that making an obtuse licencing clause is a bit of an asshole thing to do. I can't see why anyone would disagree with that either.

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lucisferre  13 years ago

Ugh, startup code, be glad they don't push all that crap up to Github. I'm more than happy that most sane contributors to open source have a filter on. Not every piece of internal code is needed or wanted be the community.