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lfowles | 2 years ago

Why bespoke licenses? Won't that make customers more wary as they have to clear the licenses through their legal too?

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gavinhoward|2 years ago

Yes, but these licenses have far more protection for me than regular licenses.

I'm working with a lawyer to ensure that these licenses are void if the user expects me to have any duty, like the Bitcoin lawsuits ([1], see comments at [2]) or the EU's upcoming Cybersecurity Resilience Act that might require me to be audited or worse [3], which I can't afford. (I do want an audit when I can afford it, though.)

[1]: https://laanwj.github.io/2023/02/06/regrets.html

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34684715

[3]: https://blog.opensource.org/what-is-the-cyber-resilience-act...

follower|2 years ago

FWIW:

1. (at least some of) the links from the FAQ entries to license texts appear to be broken due (presumably) to a change/transformation from `<filename>.md` to directory path.

2. It might be helpful to more clearly identify the text differences between the multiple licenses and/or at least the FAQs to enable skipping duplicated commentary when reading.