I need some space to understand deeper issues.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
The sub is called “no stupid questions”, not “completely unclear questions”. I genuinely have no idea what you want to know. 🤨
MastKalandar@feddit.online 3 days ago
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
I think that’s a pretty straightforward question. The first bit narrows it down to the context of open-source licenses. This certainly makes the question very clear with intent and purpose, and you dug yourself into a deeper hole by emphasising your invalid point with “completely”.
Perhaps reading comprehension is not your greatest strength, if you need help on that, I would highly recommend “Biff, Chip, and Kipper” books. They are fun, highly engaging, with a range of different reading levels for all ages. I loved these books when I was a kid, so I think you would enjoy them too!
The stories involve lots of time travel and fantasy worlds which I think a majority people will enjoy, but if you’re not interested in any kind of fun story, you have the lower reading levels that teach you basic sentence structure with everyday happenings, like going to the store with Gran.
“The magic key began to glow…”
p.s. the phrase “no stupid questions” refers to how teachers encourage students to ask questions by saying “Remember class, there are no stupid questions!” It does not mean that stupid questions are not allowed!
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Aw man, I remember my kid having the Biff Chip and Kipper books, but we never got to the end of them as far as I know. That magic key bit was a real twist in what had thusfar been a pretty reality-grounded series. I need to go look up how that story progressed.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Well, ok, if all OP wanted to know is what a copyright license is:
By default, copyright law in most countries prohibits anyone except the author or other copyright holder from distributing creative works, including software, even in modified form. There are a few exceptions to this, but this is the general rule.
A license is a document that the copyright holder agreed to that grants someone permission to do so anyway.
In the context of open source, such a license needs to meet certain conditions to be considered open source. Among other things it needs to allow anyone (not just specific licensees) to distribute the software for any purpose, even in modified form.