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0 pointsmatkoniecz11mo ago0 comments

> What's good about being "permissive"?

it is good if you do not plan to go for violators anyway

I made some photos and published them on Wikimedia Commons (say, of random bicycle infrastructure).

I am fine with people using them without attribution, I expect that their use overall furthers my goals rather than damages it and if I would release it on CC-BY-SA 4.0 or similar I would not go to court over missing attribution.

Therefore I selected CC0, no reason to make things more complicated only to people following license.

I selected AGPL/GPL for some software where I would be happy to burn pile of money in case of license violation, up to and including litigating it in court for 10 years.

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trelane11mo ago

You might not care, but your downstream users might care about being locked in.

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0 pointsmatkoniecz11mo ago0 comments

> What's good about being "permissive"?

it is good if you do not plan to go for violators anyway

I made some photos and published them on Wikimedia Commons (say, of random bicycle infrastructure).

Therefore I selected CC0, no reason to make things more complicated only to people following license.

I selected AGPL/GPL for some software where I would be happy to burn pile of money in case of license violation, up to and including litigating it in court for 10 years.