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Works of art, Git, revisions, permissions chain, public release and marketing proposals
I would like to ask the following question on the main site, but don't know if it is appropriate. If an artist has a drawing, that, they developed, as part of the company. They want to share it in Git ...
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10th Anniversary of Open Source SE!
In June Open Source SE turns 10 years old. Congratulations on asking, answering, voting, and building this community for a whole decade! Whenever a Stack Exchange site turns 10 we like to celebrate by ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of ...
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Are questions about licenses that ban commercial use on-topic or off-topic?
Examples of licenses that ban commercial use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en https://github.com/adobe-research/VideoDoodles/blob/main/LICENSE.md Are questions about ...
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Why is the question about when it is not bad to use a nonfree program a bad subjective question?
I asked a question that is closed for opinion-based. While the body can be said to basically remain unchanged, I have tried different variations of title like (I've fixed grammar here): When is it ...
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Stack Exchange is not open sourced. Why do you decide to participate here?
I understand that there are people don't care at all about FOSS. However, I assume that people in here have an interest to use FOSS over a closed source program. The degree of priority varies by ...
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Posting a question asking for feedback about a licensing tool
Several users ask licensing questions related to open source software. As faculty member and a software engineer researcher, I propose an open source tool that helps OSS developers and user better ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here might be ...
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Licensing question
Is there a stack exchange site that deals now with copyright issues, copyright infringement, and contribution ethics? This is the closest I could find.
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Why don't you want to moderate for Open Source?
A few weeks ago, we announced to the Open Source community that we had trouble getting the necessary number of nominations to hold a competitive election. We hoped that this would start a conversation ...
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Does [commercial] and [monetization] tags have too big of an overlap for them to be merged?
Background: I have asked How can free and open source projects be monetized? (2015) back when we had no idea what to do with our tags, and [monetization] was created since that felt like the tag that ...
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Insufficient nominees for moderator election: What happens next?
Stack Exchange’s position is that every site has a team of moderators to operate in our network. Currently, this community is being moderated by apsillers and MadHatter, who have been doing an ...
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What happens if the election is cancelled?
The banner at the top of the election page states that: After 14 days, the top 30 nominees, ordered by reputation, advance to the primary phase. However, if there are 10 or fewer candidates, we skip ...
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2023 Community Moderator Election
The 2023 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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2023 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection [closed]
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here. Open Source Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, ...