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# Licenses
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I agree with free-culture licenses; I am a hippie at heart.
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I license all the content on my site under the [CC-BY-SA](TODO).
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## Other Licenses
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### GPL
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The GPL is the only license which guarantees code openness.
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It allows people to redistribute and modify your code with no restrictions except that they must also share all changes back to the original author.
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### MIT/BSD/Apache/Mozilla/etc.
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The MIT and BSD licenses are more considered more "permissive" in that they allow closed source derivatives of the code to exist.
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Part of me wants to like this more: more freedom right?
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Sure, I suppose, but not freedom for users: the vast majority of the time this is freedom only for corporations.
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I'm sure this occasionally helps a small business, but I see the MIT and BSD licenses as mostly a way to get big corporations free software that they can then sell for a profit.
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To be clear, you can do this under the GPL as well, but at least with the GPL and changes made by a corporation making money from the software get shared back with the author and makes the *software* better for everyone.
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### CC-based licenses
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Creative Commons (CC) based licenses are more for artistic works (like blog articles and information) and apply very rarely to programs.
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CC licenses may have a combination of a few different restrictions, or no restrictions (also known as the CC0 or Public Domain license).
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The restrictions are as follows:
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* BY--the original author must be credited.
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* SA (Share-alike)--all derivative works must share the same license.
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* NC (Non-commercial)--the material may not be used for profit.
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* ND (No derivatives)--the material may only be used as is; you may not edit the materials and redistribute them.
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I considered giving this site a CC-based license but ultimately decided against it;
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you never know who is going to just take it and then credit you in tiny invisible letters at the bottom of the page.
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So to avoid that whole fiasco, I use the final license:
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### Copyright
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Full copyright means no derivatives or redistributions may be made in any way, shape or form.
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I use this on my own pages to protect myself, but I'd be happy to let someone use it no problem if they just ask.
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It gives me a bit more control over where my content ends up.
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