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The footer of unlicense.org:

> No rights reserved

And links to CC0(http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)


Which begs the question of why unlicense.org isn't just a page that says "This already exists and is called CC0". Why another license?


http://ar.to/2011/01/unlicense-1st-year explains some of the motivations

e.g. Creative Commons licenses generally are discouraged for software. Not much of an issue in case of CC0, but still


Hmm, so unlicense is intended for software. And CC0 is also suitable for non software work like text. This makes sense. (Nowadays website becomes more like software though.)


CC0 wasn't always deemed suitable for software, which led to the creation of the Unlicense initiative. The history is recounted at: https://github.com/project-open-data/project-open-data.githu...


It seems that `--split-index` is only available at 'update-index'. Can it be used with `add` or via `git config`?


Better support for w3m

Currently hacker news answers w3m's post request with this error message:

  Post request without Content-Length.
This prevents w3m users to login into Hacker News.

This issue has also been reported on the arc forum: http://www.arclanguage.org/item?id=4419


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