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I see that ripgrep is dual license by MIT license and the Unlicense. I suppose that might be a reasonable way to do it. All of my software is I release it as public domain, but maybe the dual license might help. A variant I have seen is a program that uses MIT license, but it also says that any Discordian pope (which is anyone) is allowed to grant themself a license to use it by WTFPL (which effectively makes it as public domain, even if it isn't).

Free time is unscheduled is I think reasonable and it make sense. But also you might have nothing to change for some time, so until then there would not have any next release.

I write many programs too, but rarely get any comments, whether positive or negative or neutral. (One exception is my "bystand" NNTP client; I have received a patch to make it work on BSD, and some bug fixes, which I have accepted.)

And to write a FAQ document, I think you would need to know the questions.



If you want your code to be maximally useable, slap an MIT or BSD license on it. Anything else is commentary; the Discordian pope one makes me smile, to be sure.

But yeah, public domain isn't well-defined internationally, so MIT and public domain is more permissive than just public domain, in practice.




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