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Just spotted an increase in pull requests and auto-generated user pages from the curl command and spotted HN had found this project. Thought I'd chime in an re
by remysharp 14y ago
Just spotted an increase in pull requests and auto-generated user pages from the curl command and spotted HN had found this project.
Thought I'd chime in an reply to a few of the comments here.
1. Will it be online in 10 years? Yes - .org domains can only be registered up to 10 years in advance (though we've had donations going up to 2032). Check `whois mit-license.org | grep Expiration` and you'll see 16-Oct-2021 (I need to add this year).
2. "This is bizarre...just Host All The Things!". Partially you're right, but if you read the very first line of the README.md I explain why I wanted to host it:https://github.com/remy/mit-license https://github.com/remy/mit-license
TL;DR: because I nearly always forget to include the file, and if I do, I usually forget to change it from project to project, and from year to year (also why I don't like to the opensource.org url - the date is a placeholder).
This would let me include just the url in my script headers (and someone else noted, and you're right on, what if you're offline? Arguably, the "mit-license.org" part of the URL should help the reader know what the license is - even if they can't read the contents).
Like I said, just chiming in. I'm not saying anyone here is wrong or right - it's just something I made for myself, and figured it might be useful to more than just me.