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		technomancy on March 10, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open source license usage on GitHub Code that doesn't have patent protection isn't very useful to people who live in countries with oppressive patent laws.

Aldo_MX on March 10, 2015 | [–]

Code with encryption isn't very useful to people who live in countries where encryption is forbidden, does that mean I shouldn't write code with encryption?

tedunangst on March 10, 2015 | [–]

If I could make all my patent problems go away by sprinkling magic Apache License dust on my code, I'd consider it, but I don't think it works that way.

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