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In my opinion, there should be a lot more discouragement of questions that can be answered by reading the frequently asked licensing questions of the main FLOSS organizations.

At the very least, there should be more "What have you tried to answer that question yourself?", or "Why does $faqentry not answer your question?" comments.

This may prevent non-licensing questions from being drowned in licensing questions, because either the additional research effort required help to answer the questions, or at least dissuades people from asking those that are not worth that effort and most likely be part of those FAQs already.

In my opinion, there should be a lot more discouragement of questions that can be answered by reading the frequently asked questions of the main FLOSS organizations.

At the very least, there should be more "What have you tried to answer that question yourself?", or "Why does $faqentry not answer your question?" comments.

In my opinion, there should be a lot more discouragement of questions that can be answered by reading the frequently asked licensing questions of the main FLOSS organizations.

At the very least, there should be more "What have you tried to answer that question yourself?", or "Why does $faqentry not answer your question?" comments.

This may prevent non-licensing questions from being drowned in licensing questions, because either the additional research effort required help to answer the questions, or at least dissuades people from asking those that are not worth that effort and most likely be part of those FAQs already.

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In my opinion, there should be a lot more discouragement of questions that can be answered by reading the frequently asked questions of the main FLOSS organizations.

At the very least, there should be more "What have you tried to answer that question yourself?", or "Why does $faqentry not answer your question?" comments.