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darkan15@lemmy.world 1 day agoThe TL, DR version of sharing with of No License, is that technically speaking you are not explicitly permitting others to use your code in any way, just allowing them to look, a license is a formal way to give permissions to others to copy, modify, or use your code.
You don’t need an extra file for the license, you can embed it on a section at the top of your file, as you did with the description, just add a # License section at the very top, if you want the most permissive one you can just use MIT, just need to replace the year of publication of the code and a username or email that can identify you as the author
hereforawhile@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Thankyou that’s really helpful 👍
ki9@lemmy.gf4.pw 1 day ago
It didn’t used to be this way. You used to apply for copyright like a patent. Rich people stole content from poor artists that didn’t have the lawyers to file copyright. This broken system has been reformed. Nowadays, if you create something, you automatically own the copyright. You now have to “opt out” of copyright with an explicit license to “release” the rights. Much better system.
mat@linux.community 1 day ago
Yet enforcing your copyright is exclusive to the rich. I had to move off of GitHub because of Microsoft infringing my code licenses and selling them as “GitHub Copilot”, and I have no way of fighting back/recover my losses.