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Today I learned (TIL)

I'd like to improve my writing, that is why I created the blog. At the same time I was missing a mechanism to share small things i learned which are "not really worth a blog post". The TIL category is for sharing those small things. For now I leave them in the blog with a tag TIL.

So what did I learn today? Instead of making a big concept

  • subdmain vs. url path
  • in own git repo?
  • can i have 2 "blogs" with mkdocs-material one for blogs and one for til
  • til own RSS feed?
  • ..

I shall rather start, because writing is the focus. Refactoring later once I have a better concept is ok.

Got the inspiration from Simon Willison's TIL and Julia Evans TIL.

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Which license to choose for a git repo?

TIL Codeberg1 has a help text to choose a license when creating a git repository.
That is handy! Let's make a Mermaid Flowchart for that. I find that it is better to read than pure text.

flowchart TD
    A[Do you either want to allow people to create proprietary closed-source projects with your code, or do you expect your project to remain small e.g. less than 300 lines?]

    A -- "No" --> B[Do you want to allow people to create a closed-source service, for example by using your code on a web server without releasing the source code?]
    A -- "Yes" --> D[Do you want to be able to sue users of your code for patent infringement implemented in the code?]

    B -- "No" --> AGPL[We recommend using the **AGPL-3.0-or-later** license]
    B -- "Yes" --> C[Do you want to allow people to use your code as a library and not disclose the source-code of their main program?]

    C -- "No" --> GPL[We recommend using the **GPL-3.0-or-later** license]
    C -- "Yes" --> LGPL[We recommend using the **LGPL-3.0-or-later** license]

    D -- "No" --> Apache[We recommend using the **Apache-2.0** license]
    D -- "Yes" --> MIT[We recommend using the **MIT** license]

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