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   Dan (phrawzty) (phrawzty@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 00:22:53 JST Dan (phrawzty)

   I feel like most in-house software is tacitly released under the Hot Potato Licence.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 02:59:39 JST 翠星石

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     @phrawzty Yet another example why "open source" was a terrible idea.
     
     Licenses 1-4 are proprietary ones, as they don't respect the 4 freedoms (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms) and they also don't meet the osd; https://opensource.org/osd
     
     5 & 6 are informal licenses that should not be used even though they barely qualify as free ones.
     
     The listed WTFPL version is the wrong version to use for software - see under "Why is there no “no warranty” clause?"; http://www.wtfpl.net/faq/
     
     The beerware license lacks a warranty disclaimer, so that technically means that the author has granted a warranty.
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     Dan (phrawzty) (phrawzty@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 02:59:41 JST Dan (phrawzty)

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     Source: https://matt-rickard.com/bizarre-open-source-licenses

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