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[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not particularly fond of cuck licenses.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

That actually does describe the class of licences fairly accurately. Companies specifically love cuck licenses because of their unfree propagation properties.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] lime@feddit.nu -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

what's with this language?

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Pretty sure it’s a shock and awe strategy by the author to make the term stick. And it worked.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It works to make others dismiss you and your arguments - I'll never take anyone seriously who decides to express themselves like this.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In case you haven’t noticed, I didn’t coin the term.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Cuck+%E2%80%9Clicense%E2%80%9D

The web did.

But don’t let that stop you on your crusade to clean the web of foul words. I wish you all the best.