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diff --git a/.md/about/faq.md b/.md/about/faq.md index ea54491..6bbf29b 100644 --- a/.md/about/faq.md +++ b/.md/about/faq.md @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ # Frequently Anticipated Questions + ## Questions noone asked, but could maybe + ### *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. |