this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2025
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I think you should do more then just add a disclaimer. You should add a proper license. It protects you and allows others to build upon your work in a predictable way.
That and licenses are legally battle hardened and proven. A self written disclaimer is not.
I would recommend licensing your scripts under the GPL. This lets other people use it with the understanding that if they improve it they have to let others use the improvements too.
That and it protects you like you want. Particularly section 15 and 16.
Alternatively you could use the MIT or BSD licenses, but they don’t have the “share alike” clause, so I tend not to recommend them.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
While it feels a bit overkill for what is essentially 60 lines of bash, i think it's the best option. As you have already said, they have been thoroughly battle tested, so there shouldn't be any problems. So yes, most likely i'll go with this.
Thanks mate.
You don't know if those 60 lines of bash are worth something to corporate america. Any code we write has value, how much value is rarely up to us.
A few months ago we had a guy playing a side project he did where he used a model to replace clothing on people so you could try something on and see how you looked. I begged him to add a license to his repo, and he still hasn't, because "it's just a bit of python". Like dude you don't see it but you just game Nordstrom or Macy's millions of dollars for free man! Guy didn't see it.
So yeah. Maybe it's just a helper script. Who cares. Adding the license is free and takes seconds, and who knows, maybe you solve a million dollar problem.