I had originally asked in this thread if we should allow non-copyleft open source projects on this community at all, but I didn’t get enough responses to come to a decision, so I will still continue to allow non-copyleft until further notice. Instead, I decided on this as the alternative: When sharing a Libre project, please include the name of its license in the title.

For example: “Lemmy: Building a federated alternative to reddit in rust (AGPL-3.0)”

It doesn’t have to be formatted exactly like that, but please at least include the acronym of the license, and the version number if there is one. At some point, I will start removing new posts that do not follow this rule, but I won’t start doing that right now to allow for a transition period.

I’m open to feedback on this, comment them below.

  • soferman@lemmy.ml
    11·
    4 years ago

    It’s a good guideline or culture to have.

    But enforcing it too hard I think is a bad idea. Makes the community become less accessible for most people with a bar to entry.

    Not everyone has the full knowledge of licenses and I don’t think it’s a preferable experience if a somewhat new person of the community just get replies that they have include the license, and they don’t know how and where to find it and they have to use time on that.

    Or EVEN the only interaction they get to their post is “you don’t have the license in your title”.

    I’d like a wording like “please try to” for such a rule.

    • pinknoise@lemmy.ml
      2·
      4 years ago

      I agree with this. If mods think that enforcement is necessary the rules should at least be made more concise. (only the list, shorter text)