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		rolls-reus on March 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A curated list of FOSS tools to improve the Hacker... Lack of a license does not make code FOSS by default.

bminusl on March 15, 2021 [–]

The lack of a license on small projects is often an oversight. And anyway, when the authors are notified, they choose the first license they see --- often MIT.

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