On: Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger

[ventana]

Besides other fun things about this license, using it effectively forbids Google employees to send patches to your projects. [1]

[1]: https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/patching#f...

[jareklupinski → ventana]

TIL

> The Hippocratic License is an ethical software license created to ensure that open source software is not used for harmful purposes, aligning with human rights principles

[wvbdmp → ventana]

The paragraph doesn’t really explain the rationale for forbidding WTFPL and even Public Domain and CC0? They’re all fine for commercial use, aren’t they?

[Hugsbox → wvbdmp]

Only a guess, but it could be because WTFPL is effectively very similar to having no license at all from what I gather

[andai → wvbdmp]

I thought they were basically BSD/MIT but even less annoying.