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by beckman466 1621 days ago
> Matt Might has a solution for this that I love: Don't clean & organize! Release it under the CRAPL[0]

> "Generally, academic software is stapled together on a tight deadline; an expert user has to coerce it into running; and it's not pretty code. Academic code is about 'proof of concept.'"

This is brilliant!

edit: it seems that, aside from that great snippet from the text, the license itself isn't so great. another comment [1] has a great analysis of the actual license and suggests using a superior solution (copying the preamble part yet still using MIT/(A)GPL).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29937180