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No right to relicense this project

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

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No right to relicense this project · Issue #327 · chardet/chardet

Hi, I'm Mark Pilgrim. You may remember me from such classics as "Dive Into Python" and "Universal Character Encoding Detector." I am the original author of chardet. First off, I would like to thank...

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Niko Föhr Jan 14, 2024

I just saw a conversation of people discussing about a library. The library was "unfortunately" having MIT license. They were using #unlicense (https://unlicense.org/)

Is the MIT license somehow restrictive? I mean, I tend to avoid GNU GPL as it restricts people from using code in any way they want, namely as part of proprietary software. But do you see downsides in MIT license?

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Kevin Dominik Korte Dec 12, 2023

What is open-source? With the rise of source-available licenses, it has become increasingly important to be accurate in our wording. Betanews has a great article about it:
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Viktor Nagornyy Aug 31, 2023

Is Font Awesome #opensource or are they #openwashing?

The free version is licensed under Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International, which is not an OSI-approved license:
https://opensource.org/licenses/

It's not software, so it's fine to use that license. But v4 was open source under SIL OFL 1.1.

I'm not a legal expert, but this seems to be source-available with a generous free license. Hence, open-washing? 🤔

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