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josephcsible ◴[] No.41916141[source]
Can you add a license file?
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solcloud ◴[] No.41916703[source]
I guess I can, but I am not a lawyer and I don't really want to go on date with Gaben and his lawyers (date with Gabe, gooseman and Jess is ok for me), but if you have any suggestions please share
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solcloud ◴[] No.41916709[source]
source code is all written from scratch and it is free for anybody
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JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B ◴[] No.41916909[source]
That’s not a valid license. Without a file or statement in the repository, I guess it’s a proprietary piece of software that people cannot legally fork.
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1. account42 ◴[] No.41924216[source]
Actully, the act of putting it on GitHub might be considered an implied license to clone and fork the project since those are normal GitHub functions. Still, an explicit open source license that also makes sure to grant those rights outside of GitHub would be better.