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# Frequently Anticipated Questions
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## Questions noone asked, but could maybe
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### *Why bother running a Tor hidden service if you're gonna put your full name on it?*
One, because I think hidden services are neat and I thought it'd be neat
@@ -44,3 +46,41 @@ forces you to poke around more. Poking around is a good thing.
Because I made it to set the publication date to the last write time of
the file. Change is important and I do it often, because I'm often
wrong.
+
+### *Why is this site public domain? What does that mean?*
+
+This site is "licensed" under The Creative Commons CC0 or "No Rights
+Reserved" license. This means that any file accessible on my web server
+which I created (which is the text you are reading and the code that
+generates it) belongs to the public domain as far as legally possible
+and I reserve no right to it's re-publication, re-use, or
+re-distribution with no expectation of compensation. So if you find any
+use of the information I post here, or the little flask app I wrote to
+run the thing, you are free to use it without any fear that I'm going to
+slap you with a lawsuit. This does *not* include most of the images; I
+try to link credit where I can for those.
+
+A lot of people might prefer a BSD or GNU style license for their
+code and I agree that there are many cases where *that* is the preferred
+option. But it doesn't make sense for me; at least not for a homepage
+like this. I'm not sure about other people, but most of my ideas are not
+my own; they come from reading a history book or doing a textbook
+exercise or an off-color joke. So without getting on a soapbox, I guess
+you can say the idea of "intellectual property" never made too much
+sense to me in general.
+
+I get that people have to get paid. I get that people are afraid of
+someone else taking credit for their work. But for this site at least,
+I guess I just don't really care. If someone really finds some way to
+profit of some random guy's Linux tutorials and unqualified thoughts
+on the world I honestly think *they* deserve the credit not me. I have
+no idea how I'd do that; I'm not sure I'd even want to waste my time
+with all the marketing nonsense of the modern web. And on the second
+point, if someone "steals" my work it's not exactly hard to figure out
+it was published here first--a Google search will prove that. But even
+if that weren't the case, I still wouldn't mind. I'd be glad that this
+stuff is useful at all. That would be a nice surprise.
+
+*Not* everything that is *linked* to on this site falls under the same
+guidelines, so be sure to respect that author's copyright; I tend to
+link stuff that is generally pretty free to use, though.