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diff --git a/about/faq.html b/about/faq.html index bd348f2..29b8a37 100644 --- a/about/faq.html +++ b/about/faq.html @@ -15,3 +15,8 @@ <p>Eh. I feel like if what I say isn't interesting, prettying it up won't help keep attention that much. I like simple sites like this one. It forces you to poke around more. Poking around is a good thing.</p> <h3 id="why-does-your-rss-feed-update-me-on-old-stuff"><em>Why does your RSS feed update me on old stuff?</em></h3> <p>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.</p> +<h3 id="why-is-this-site-public-domain-what-does-that-mean"><em>Why is this site public domain? What does that mean?</em></h3> +<p>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 <em>not</em> include most of the images; I try to link credit where I can for those.</p> +<p>A lot of people might prefer a BSD or GNU style license for their code and I agree that there are many cases where <em>that</em> 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.</p> +<p>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 <em>they</em> 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.</p> +<p><em>Not</em> everything that is <em>linked</em> 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.</p> |