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One bonus which isn't obvious on the website: the code's open source [1], and released under the CC0 licence.

[1] https://github.com/davidmerfield/Blot



Doesnt Creative Commons actively discourage the use of their licenses for code? I seem to recall seeing something to that effect on their website.


Yes, CC0 has not yet been approved as an open source license by OSI.[1][2] FSF on the other hand, do consider CC0 to be compatible with GPL.[3]

[1]: https://opensource.org/faq#cc-zero

[2]: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0_FAQ#May_I_apply_CC...

[3]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CC0


CC0 is a special case, it's a release into the public domain, plus a fully permissive license for countries where you can't release into the PD.


Cool, thanks. This seemed like a good service, but I want to run the daemon myself (and not pay $20).

I’ll contribute to the project or figure out some way to get money to the project team if I like it.


$20 per YEAR

Just a note for others who see this comment as high up as I did.


Honestly, unless it would take you less than half an hour per year on average to do whatever you want with the source code, I think buying it is the more economical option.


Perhaps I could spend more than half an hour to save others the time.

The beauty of software having a near zero marginal cost is that it only take one person to volunteer their time.




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