Lookup any software license shortly summarized in plain English
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1) It shows no differences between GPLv2 and GPLv3. It's not a good sign.
2) I would put shitloads of banners everywhere saying that you're using this site at your own risk.
For example, if you check the GPLv3 it says "Must: Include Source", which is incorrect (you must include the source code ONLY if there's distribution).
If you click on the "Include Source" text, then it shows a note saying "Copies of the software/instructions to obtain copies must be distributed with the software".
The quick summary isn't brilliant either.
As TL;DR doesn't work very well if you can get incorrect information.
"You may copy, distribute and modify the software as long as you retain this license, track changes/dates of in source files and keep it GPL."
Change License
This software allows you to switch licenses.
1. The search is broken. I couldn't find the Apache license using a half-dozen tries, including searches like "Apache", "Apache2", and "ASL".
2. One of the big issues with open source licenses is knowing which licenses are compatible with what. Can I use the EPL with the ASL? What about the LGPL? That information is hard to find.
But, I recently shaved my neckbeard. So there's that going for my class!
I only allow it when a website is unusable without it.
(I know him in RL, and right now new HN accounts cannot be created.)
They cannot be created from the login page, but a prompt is offered to create a new account when replying to a comment.
The two more common uses of "shortly" indicate something is going to happen soon and that something was phrased in a curt, abrupt manner.
Almost all uses of shortly that mean "concise" also tend to have the curt, abrupt, somewhat negative connotation. The only times I've seen uses of shortly that have only the "brief" shade of meaning, there is still a connotation of something simple, that somehow someone has overlooked. (Example: "to put it shortly," which is interchangeable with, "to put it simply.")
Because of this, no native English speaker would title a such headline in a positive sense with the adjective "shortly" meaning brief.
Admittedly, this is confusing because "shortly" used in the sense of "happening soon" does often carry a positive connotation. Unfortunately, English is Byzantine and full of exceptions and connotations and not completely orthogonal. (It is orthogonal here from a strictly syntactic sense, but not from the common usage one.)
May tag cloud of licences would be beneficial?
This is something I would share and recommend.
Awesome tool, thanks.
[0] E.g., http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License)
What I wanted to say is already commented here on HackerNews though: searching for "GPL" for example, you get a not-found. You'll indeed need to wait for suggestions to come up before you can click a licence. These suggestions should appear on the results page too.
Also, is there any approval process? If not, I think people should have to register to submit, have a "vouch" button, or something, so we know who we're trusting.
Finally, when all the fields in the submit form have validation errors, the submit button disappears.
As for the approval process, I manually go through and verify it's correct.
Finally, I will look into the submission validation errors.
Thanks!
This is bad because my silly university blocks all websites with a reputation of less than -6, thus I was only able to see it through a proxy.
Note: I tried to get useful actual facts on why it is badly rated but I did not succeed.
Not convinced by the UI tough : a search box with a closed (& short) list of possibilities, really ?
PS: How can you write "summariZed in plain English" ? ;)