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155points
93comments
#130of 2,565 in 2015
Top 6%of 2015 by points

How HN took it

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7 positive, 32 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 8 critical, out of 48 comments about the project. Thread score +0.03.

Idea: 5 for, 8 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Fun, clever idea and license joke

    From 3 comments
    • I am in love with the license text ``` Autonomous Software License (ASL) All property contained in this repo, including Intellectual Property, Financial Property, and Legal…
      andreasklinger on HN
    • "GitHub plays programmer" This is going to be great!
      13throwaway on HN
    • Great idea, but I think it should have been named "PReddit" (Pull Request rEDDIT)
      tomphoolery on HN

Objections

  • License would not hold up in court

    From 3 comments
    • Amusing and thought provoking. Does anyone have any idea how this would hold up in a court of law should some something malicious come of this repo? I would imagine not well.
      mcjiggerlog on HN
    • IANAL, but there's no way this would hold up. a) Software can't own property. b) This looks like it's running from the author's own system, with the author's explicit consent.…
      mintplant on HN
    • IANAL but assuming that the author making this license was in US, it is totally void. It could lead to a court having to formally state that a software is not a legal entity,…
      Iv on HN
  • Not a real software license; grants no permissions

    From 1 comment
    • This claims to be a "software license" but it isn't one. It doesn't give you, the person reading the code, permission to do anything. IANAL, but I presume that any code that…
      rspeer on HN

Requests

  • Enable GitHub issues

    From 1 comment
    • Do you think you can enable issues on github? It may help organize some of the work going on.
      pests on HN
  • Add a judge system or tests

    From 2 comments
    • I wonder how long until someone accidentally breaks it. Nomic has judges for a reason, this one'll just crash... Love the idea though.
      Filligree on HN
    • Yeah, that is probably pretty important. It looks like a lot of people aren't testing their changes, and any one could have a small syntax error.
      mappum on HN

Questions

  • What server is the code running on?

    From 1 comment
    • What server/platform is the code actually running on? I fail to see how the license can apply, unless there is no server owned by a human entity running the code, and there is no…
      lukeqsee on HN

Alternatives named

  • Nomic

    From 1 comment
  • Crowdsourced homepage repo by Rob Ashton

    From 1 comment
    • I have seen a lot of these Github repositories that accept anything showing up on HN. My favourite one of late was the crowdsourced homepage for a guy named Rob Ashton:…
      DigitalSea on HN

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