Perhaps because it prominently says that it isn't even a license at all?
It is just a made-up term/category to identify licenses that restrict direct commercialization of software. Like how "open-source" isn't a license by itself, but a reasonably-shared understanding about software licenses with some properties.
Don’t add restrictions, period. You shouldn’t even have such an option. It’s an evil thing. It also shows a profound ignorance of how little your work adds vs builds on the contributions of others.
This could be a good submission but right now it's a follow-up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632892, which is already on the front page. In such cases it's best for the auxiliary link to appear in the comments, not as a second submission on the front page. This is because frontpage space is the scarcest resource we have, and because trying to avoid repetition is a key aspect of optimizing for curiosity.
Ah, I came across it independently of the other article, but I get where you're coming from.
Edit: To note the copy/pasted set of links at the bottom of the post mostly end up leading to further instances of the same copy/pasted set of links. Not overly informative.
RE: front page scarcity and avoiding repetition, one of the few things I like about stack overflow (which is also present in Notational Velocity and its descendants, and there’s other prior art) is treating the title input also as a search to help minimize duplicates. I know HN doesn’t like to have a lot of in page interactivity but maybe if a title or link seems to duplicate another recent submission on submit it could prompt to upvote or comment the earlier submission in lieu of submitting the duplicate?
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 44.7 ms ] threadIt is just a made-up term/category to identify licenses that restrict direct commercialization of software. Like how "open-source" isn't a license by itself, but a reasonably-shared understanding about software licenses with some properties.
Here's a thwack of links to past explanations:
On follow-up posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Frontpage scarcity: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Curiosity withers under repetition: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Optimizing for one thing: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Can't be predicted from any sequence: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Edit: To note the copy/pasted set of links at the bottom of the post mostly end up leading to further instances of the same copy/pasted set of links. Not overly informative.