Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderMay I recommend replacing The Unlicense with CC0? (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode). It has all the same bullet points except is a bit tighter in countries where a public domain release is not legally valid. Unfortunately it is more difficult to release works into the public domain than The Unlicense addresses. The Unlicense is likely sufficient for all foreseen cases in countries except Germany and France (to my knowledge), but CC0 is written beautifully with a double-fallback to…
Really, this should just be a big sign saying "use the MIT license". This is a site for beginners to OSS licensing. If this is your first time, just choose the MIT. If it's not the first time, you get to worry about whether you want to restrict reuse with the GPL, whether you prefer the BSD (2-clause or 3?), whether you agree with Stallman's philosophy enough to put up with the downsides of imposing GPL on your users, whether…
This page is an excellent resource. I do wish the Eclipse license was up here as well w/its various pros/cons expounded.
how about one that opens the source code, permits non-commercial use but prohibits commercial use without express permission. or is that not open source? You see, i want others to read and learn, but i don't want rich bastard companies to make money from my free work.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 323
- Total comments
- 257
100+ points or 50+ comments
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