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I certainly don't, I view everything I've ever written as MIT-equivalent. Feel free to copypaste what I've written without my express permission or rewrite it as you see fit. Does not matter to me whether this is to create spammy blogposts, commercial ventures, or for your school essay.

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This. I don't publish code I think is useful. I realize that's contrary to the open source ethos, and that many people would consider it hypocritical that I would then use open source without compunction - but I view open sourcing as a choice, and closed-sourcing as an equally valid choice.

What I would never do, or never use, are restrictive/copyleft licensing terms. There don't begin to be enough hours in the day to spend even one second arguing about copyright with geeks. You get dirty, and the pigs like it, etc.

> What I would never do, or never use, are restrictive/copyleft licensing terms.

Maybe just consider them a form of closed-source (where you can look at the source) instead of raging about them?

I view my statement and your statement as effectively the same thing.

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