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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon dguo

Starter template should be license-neutral

Open resynth1943 opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

The template on the main website implicitly recommends the use of the MIT License.

In my opinion, developers should be encouraged to perform some research on the license they wish to use (especially when MIT can actually be very harmful to "open-source"). Currently, the template does not encourage this good practice.

Furthermore, the template(s) must not encourage developers to use the MIT License without understanding the negatives and positives of said license. Perhaps an external website would be better to explain this.

resynth1943 avatar Sep 20 '20 03:09 resynth1943

Sidenote: I just found this website. Am definitely liking how it explains things. Perhaps we could link to that?

resynth1943 avatar Sep 20 '20 03:09 resynth1943