REremysharp·Nov 12, 2012
Just spotted an increase in pull requests and auto-generated user pages from the curl command and spotted HN had found this project.
Thought I'd chime in an reply to a few of the comments here.
1. Will it be online in 10 years? Yes - .org domains can only be registered up to 10 years in advance (though we've had donations going up to 2032). Check `whois mit-license.org | grep Expiration` and you'll see 16-Oct-2021 (I need to add this year).
2. "This is bizarre...just Host All The Things!". Partially you're right, but if you read the very first line of the README.md I explain why I wanted to host it:https://github.com/remy/mit-license
TL;DR: because I nearly always forget to include the file, and if I do, I usually forget to change it from project to project, and from year to year (also why I don't like to the opensource.org url - the date
Read the rest
is a placeholder).
This would let me include just the url in my script headers (and someone else noted, and you're right on, what if you're offline? Arguably, the "mit-license.org" part of the URL should help the reader know what the license is - even if they can't read the contents).
Like I said, just chiming in. I'm not saying anyone here is wrong or right - it's just something I made for myself, and figured it might be useful to more than just me.