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Creative Commons fans, which licence should I use for the tips published by this account?

@feditips CC-BY if you want credit. Add -NC if you want to make sure nobody tries to profit from them. That's the basic ones.

@haverholm

Hmm... 🤔 This could be tricky as some of the tips are stuff people suggested. I can't take credit for that, and as @bram the basic information is public domain anyway.

Should I just leave it as it is, and informally encourage people to make their own?

@feditips@mstdn.social @haverholm@imaginair.es That would be my advice, yes.

Licenses are informal permissions written in a formal manner. You saying "sure, do whatever" is just as meaningful as a formal license.

The reason most large companies prefer licenses, is because they're more specific on what you can and cannot do. But if your mentality is "do whatever", then it doesn't matter anyway. Individuals will do whatever and large companies will have the lawyers present to tell them they don't NEED your permission.
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FediTips has moved!

@bram @haverholm

Just thinking that some people who are into libre projects might feel happier about re-publishing something which has an explicit libre licence of some kind?

@feditips@mstdn.social @haverholm@imaginair.es

You can always add a license to make people feel better.
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I think CC0 1.0 is the most free CC license:
https://tldrlegal.com/license/creative-commons-cc0-1.0-universal

No demands, everything allowed, as long as they don't hold you liable or try to patent it themselves.

tldrlegal.com Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal (CC-0) Explained in Plain English - TLDRLegal