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by burntsushi 3004 days ago
Your original comment said you "didn't understand," not that you "didn't agree." The former prompts a very different answer than the latter, but you're acting as if you said the latter.

To understand it, all you need to do is understand that some folks take actions based on ideological beliefs, often to the exclusion of pragmatism, knowingly or not.
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_ph_ 3004 days ago
No, it doesn't. I really do not understand why one thinks this is a good idea. Yes, people are free in their beliefs and expression. But if they try to do this with a nonstandard license, it only means, that the software is effectively not published as open source.

The technicalities of the law are very complicated. Tiny mistakes can render a license unusable or just invalid. So, the best advice I can give any author is to stick to one of the well-known license, as this makes it very likely that the software can be used by others.

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burntsushi 3004 days ago
> I really do not understand why one thinks this is a good idea.

You really don't understand that sometimes people act idealistically, often to the exclusion of pragmatism? What don't you understand about it?

Please consider that not everyone has the same life priorities as you.

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