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Asking questions about promoting open source software
There could be a few problems with a question like this:
It's a very open-ended idea generation question. There are no "right" or "wrong" answers. How would you know which one to pick as "accepted a …
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Do we want to allow specific questions?
I believe we will have to allow such questions, because otherwise we will run out of questions sooner or later.
There are only so many questions you can ask about the fundamental aspects of free soft …
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How is photographic licensing off-topic?
This question is blatantly off-topic.
This website is Open Source Stack Exchange, not Licenses Stack Exchange or Copyright Stack Exchange. The licensing is what differs open source from proprietary p …
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Should we copy questions from the GNU GPL FAQ
I noticed the question How to license program output? which is a verbatim copy of an entry of the GNU GPL FAQ. Naturally, the current top answer also quotes said entry of the FAQ.
Should we get conte …
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free-software, fsf, free-software-definition and other associated tags
I think we should keep the fsf and osi tags. Both organizations are very important players in the FLOSS community and do far more than just maintaining and defending their definitions.
Further, I am …
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Tag [license] or [licensing]
I've noticed that we have two tags which essentially seem to mean the same thing: [license] and [licensing]. Which one should we keep? Or is there maybe a subtle distinction which might make it worth …
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How comes the most popular question from the definition phase got closed as too broad?
During the definition phase, the highest voted example question of this site proposal was:
What's the difference between the MIT and the BSD license?
with 19 upvotes and 1 downvote.
Naturally, …