Why is your content CC licensed but code is MIT?

[thecodedrift]

This question came from the old anonymous AMA I used to have. In relaunching the AMA concept on GitHub Discussions, I wanted to bring over as many of these as I could

[thecodedrift]

Updated 2021 I've updated the post content under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. In addition to fixing issues around International Moral Rights, trademark and patent rights are expressly mentioned as not among the rights licensed, and supports automatic reinstatement of a license if a violation is fixed within 30 days.

Code behaves differently than content. It gets republished in more contexts, it may show up in books, but it will also show up in production somewhere. Creative Commons even recommends using an established open source license for software. So I do.

Content on the other hand, should be shared and remixed without sacrificing the copyright. A permissive license on post content specifically lets me do that. I do have a non-commercial restriction in there by default.