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Are questions about licenses that ban commercial use on-topic or off-topic?

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Why is the question about when it is not bad to use a nonfree program a bad subjective question?

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answered Apr 26 at 11:34

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Stack Exchange is not open source. Why do you decide you participate here?

apsillersMod

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modified Apr 19 at 18:24

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1 answer

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Posting a question asking for feedback about a licensing tool

MadHatterMod

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modified Apr 17 at 14:57

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2023: a year in moderation

JNatStaffMod

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1 answer

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Licensing question

Mureinik

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modified Jan 23 at 8:18

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4 answers

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Why don't you want to moderate for Open Source?

Philip Kendall

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modified Dec 27, 2023 at 9:10

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1 answer

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Insufficient nominees for moderator election: What happens next?

SpencerGStaffMod

101

modified Dec 4, 2023 at 20:47

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0 answers

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Does [commercial] and [monetization] tags have too big of an overlap for them to be merged?

Unihedron

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asked Nov 29, 2023 at 20:45

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1 answer

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2023 Community Moderator Election

JNatStaffMod

101

answered Nov 7, 2023 at 20:00

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1 answer

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What happens if the election is cancelled?

JNatStaffMod

101

modified Nov 1, 2023 at 12:00

2 votes

1 answer

106 views

2023 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection [closed]

JNatStaffMod

101

modified Oct 26, 2023 at 11:04

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0 answers

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Announcing a “Graduation” election for 2023

JNatStaffMod

101

modified Oct 17, 2023 at 18:04

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Error editing a question [closed]

allo

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asked Oct 10, 2023 at 18:09

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2 answers

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What are the canonical questions we've discovered?

Philip Kendall

20.7k

modified Sep 28, 2023 at 12:08

2 votes

1 answer

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Asking about a possible license violation when I'm not sure what the rules are to begin with

MadHatterMod

51.1k

answered Sep 9, 2023 at 6:51

2 votes

1 answer

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Asking a question about an open source dataset of digitized correspondence

Mureinik

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modified Sep 2, 2023 at 19:21

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3 answers

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Are questions about project organisations and their processes welcome here?

Philip Couling

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modified May 12, 2023 at 20:59

-1 votes

1 answer

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How do we feel about minor "fixup" edits?

amon

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answered May 1, 2023 at 9:05

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Should ChatGPT- and similar AI-generated content be banned?

Martin_in_AUT

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answered Feb 16, 2023 at 15:57

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Are non-software-related questions about open licenses on-topic or off-topic?

amon

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answered Feb 6, 2023 at 8:03

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0 answers

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2022: a year in moderation

JNatStaffMod

101

modified Jan 26, 2023 at 20:12

7 votes

1 answer

289 views

How should the [open-source] tag be used?

JNatStaffMod

101

modified Dec 5, 2022 at 12:45

1 vote

1 answer

242 views

Custom Badge Icon idea for Open Source SE

MadHatterMod

51.1k

answered Sep 26, 2022 at 6:46

5 votes

4 answers

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Is questioning the philosophies of the FSF, OSI, CC, etc. allowed here?

apsillersMod

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modified Jul 10, 2022 at 21:53

8 votes

1 answer

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Open Source is leaving beta

V2Blast

101

modified Jun 24, 2022 at 15:53

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2 answers

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Tour => Allowed or denied? Getting help in selecting software for a given task. Allowed to ask? Or against site rules?

V2Blast

101

modified Jun 24, 2022 at 15:50

3 votes

0 answers

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2021: a year in moderation

JNatStaffMod

101

asked Jan 12, 2022 at 16:56

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2 answers

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How do we feel about people asking for off-site contact?

MadHatterMod

51.1k

modified Jan 3, 2022 at 9:27

4 votes

1 answer

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No [programming] questions here!

ArtOfCode

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modified Jul 10, 2021 at 20:06

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1 answer

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About asking the team searching question on the opensource SE site

MadHatterMod

51.1k

modified Apr 19, 2021 at 7:33

2 votes

2 answers

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Would the question "what if the license is refused" be on-topic?

Anonymous Coward

111

modified Apr 18, 2021 at 7:21

7 votes

0 answers

88 views

2020: a year in moderation

JNatStaffMod

101

modified Jan 21, 2021 at 13:25

3 votes

3 answers

79 views

Refining question to not be a duplicate - status of old version control revisions wrt licensing

MadHatterMod

51.1k

answered Jun 17, 2020 at 7:51

1 vote

1 answer

107 views

How can I make my closed question on-topic?

ArtOfCode

9,526

answered Jun 1, 2020 at 19:38

7 votes

1 answer

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Is it time for a list of canonical questions?

curiousdannii

7,973

modified May 19, 2020 at 3:58

5 votes

2 answers

330 views

Are source-available licenses off-topic?

MikeBeaton

381

answered Apr 16, 2020 at 18:03

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0 answers

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2019: a year in moderation

Shog9

101

modified Jan 3, 2020 at 4:23

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1 answer

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Don't we get a "2019: a year in moderation" post?

Shog9

101

answered Jan 1, 2020 at 17:50

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1 answer

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I found a question that contains an answer that is weak and/or may be wrong. Should this question/answer be moderated somehow?

Trevor Boyd Smith

101

modified Nov 22, 2019 at 14:48

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2 answers

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Perceived inconsistency between question closing argumentation and help center topic specification

ArtOfCode

9,526

answered Oct 14, 2019 at 22:16

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1 answer

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2019 Community Moderator Election Results

MadHatterMod

51.1k

modified Oct 2, 2019 at 10:11

5 votes

1 answer

131 views

2019 Community Moderator Election

ArtOfCode

9,526

modified Oct 1, 2019 at 22:37

6 votes

0 answers

106 views

Announcing a Pro Tempore Moderator election

ArtOfCode

9,526

modified Oct 1, 2019 at 22:37

6 votes

1 answer

76 views

How technical can questions about forking a FLOSS project get?

Mureinik

5,172

answered Jul 17, 2019 at 6:03

4 votes

2 answers

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Has Open Source Stack Exchange Failed?

Nicolas Raoul

2,636

modified Jun 7, 2019 at 12:08

8 votes

2 answers

142 views

Do we need clarification of "Open Source" in the help page?

ArtOfCode

9,526

answered May 20, 2019 at 21:56

13 votes

1 answer

701 views

How do I ask for a license recommendation?

ArtOfCode

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modified May 20, 2019 at 21:34

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