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That is fascinating. Do you happen to know of any good resources for pitfalls/downsides of other popular licenses (bonus if layman friendly)?

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For example this? https://writing.kemitchell.com/ ;)

(GP is the author - it contains some very good explanations on the subject of licenses, imho of course)

Thanks for the link :)

I have been looking for exactly this content for years! Thank you!

This one is a good resource:

Software Licenses in Plain English https://tldrlegal.com/

You need to be careful though. For example for Commons Clause they accepted changes by Drew Vault (ironically the author of the article we are discussing here) which are misleading at best. Now it says that commercial use is not allowed [0], while it is really only selling that is not granted [1]. In other words, do read the license if you want to know about it.

[0] https://tldrlegal.com/license/commons-clause

[1] https://commonsclause.com/

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