It's not clear how to decide which threads to bundle together. Checking identical URLs is too narrow (e.g. the three threads mentioned have different URLs) and how to match by content isn't so easy.
With modern NLP models being extremely good, can't you bundle together all sites whose content embeddings are very close? Presumably there's an acceptable threshold somewhere that achieves a good tradeoff of false positives vs negatives?
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Even if you're right, it's not what this site is for and destroys what it is for. And you can always make your substantive points without it.
Developers have the right to say how they want their code to be used in the same way that authors have the right to say how their books can be used.
The code in a public repository doesn't have to be "free" for developers any more than publically downloadable piece of software has to be "free" for end-users.
For example, Microsoft offers a freely downloadable windows iso which people are not allowed to use use without a license.
You're arguing for increasing developer freedom by removing their ability to issue the license of their choice?
There are licenses that provide no restrictions and licenses like GPL that do. Developers should be free to offer whatever licenses they want on their code.
Just because you like a particular kind of license, doesn't mean you should be able to make everyone who publishes a public repository use that license.
Have you seen the Ms-PL? It appears to be deliberately GPL incompatible while also having a similar list of conditions as the MIT license. I think it should be the default license for public repositories.
Section D is what makes it specifically GPL incompatible. The problem with not having ANY terms is that people can make derivatives of your software under new conditions, due to how copyright law works. You need conditions to impose the lack of conditions.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34681636
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34850571