The Sharp Ninja
Nov 5 · 2 min read

Hi, I’m thinking about writing on Dev.to, but after reading all the licenses and other disclaimers I have some questions:

1) The code repository says that the code is licensed as Aferro GPL 3. That means anybody is entitled to reuse the code as distributed. According to the FSF, if code cannot be used freely because of licensing issues then it must not be made available, and if it cannot be made available, then by default it cannot be used as well, which means that the code in GitHub with licensed fonts and logos cannot be used. Now, if Dev.to owned all of the code there wouldn’t be anybody with a claim to invoke the Aferro GPL 3, but your contribution…

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