Comments on: Licensing Hell http://mpwilson.com/2009/07/13/licensing-hell/ Mon, 21 May 2012 22:13:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: SomeGeek http://mpwilson.com/2009/07/13/licensing-hell/#comment-2794 SomeGeek Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:56:43 +0000 http://mpwilson.com/?p=3796#comment-2794 If there was a "use it, but don't be an asshole about it" license available, I'd be much freer about loaning tools to my neighbors. When I can't figure out how to license a work, I end up going with a very restrictive one and putting in a disclaimer that interested parties can contact me to negotiate other rights. Which, like gun laws, is honored mostly by those who wouldn't have caused a problem anyway =\ If there was a “use it, but don’t be an asshole about it” license available, I’d be much freer about loaning tools to my neighbors.

When I can’t figure out how to license a work, I end up going with a very restrictive one and putting in a disclaimer that interested parties can contact me to negotiate other rights. Which, like gun laws, is honored mostly by those who wouldn’t have caused a problem anyway =\

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