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How I'm helping a non profit licensing org and You can too

Tawhid on January 21, 2022

Open source projects are the backbone of internet. From web servers to browsers mostly everything is open source and yet still there are people who...
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Jay Jeckel

The sentiment is nice, but open source developers won't (and shouldn't) use your custom licenses. I have to ask, what if any knowledge and experience do you have with copyright, infringement, and related legal issues?

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Tawhid • Edited

well, how about ask me a few questions ?
and can you tell me why they won't and shouldn't ?

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Tawhid

and can I improve it? or should I dump it?

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CuriousDev

Is it correct, that here we would use custom licenses with this solution? Because you could instead just provide help on already existing licenses. Something like a platform connecting people, ones who need support with their projects' license and ones who willingly provide their expertise. But I still appreciate any effort you have done!

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Tawhid

That's a great suggestion! I was thinking about helping with existing licenses but didn't think about mentorship idea!
Thanks, Now I will add functionality for this