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[–] obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I'm all for ethical licensing, and defensive licensing, but we'll likely end up with an unmanageable soup of various licenses that everyone is nervous about misinterpreting. We lose efficacy and everyone will just default back to the same handful of licenses we're currently using.

I think unless it was a small number of crystal clear alternative licenses with broadly agreeable terms, we'd get chaos, followed by complacency.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

More likely, people's work will get thrown into the bin because its poorly licensed.

[–] obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago

Well that's kind of what I'm getting at. How many times does that happen before everybody just goes back to using GPL, MIT, etc...