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scottdw2 on Jan 15, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: A New Code License: The MIT, This Time with Attrib...

This seems to be, quite obviously, an attempt at free marketing. They want to be able to point at the corpus of products influenced by SO, and say "see, we're pretty cool".

Seems misguided to me.

detaro on Jan 15, 2016 [–]

What does this require more than the previous rules that makes it an "attempt at free marketing"?

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