I Changed My License
I changed my license 05 September 2026 in Alofi, Niue 2 minute read In the last 28 years of publishing software, I’ve had three distinct eras of software licensing. All of my recent stuff is available under the European Union Public License 1.2, and I thought to explain why. This was a simpler time, and there weren’t that many free software licenses around.
- ▪I changed my license 05 September 2026 in Alofi, Niue 2 minute read In the last 28 years of publishing software, I’ve had three distinct eras of software licensing.
- ▪All of my recent stuff is available under the European Union Public License 1.2, and I thought to explain why.
- ▪This was a simpler time, and there weren’t that many free software licenses around.
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| Original publisher | Henri Bergius |
| Canonical URL | https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/eupl/ |
| Publication time | Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:39:44 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-06T11:34:56.515Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-06T11:34:56.515Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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I changed my license 05 September 2026 in Alofi, Niue 2 minute read In the last 28 years of publishing software, I’ve had three distinct eras of software licensing. All of my recent stuff is available under the European Union Public License 1.2, and I thought to explain why. Midgard was all LGPLv2. This was a simpler time, and there weren’t that many free software licenses around. Since Midgard was a web framework, using a weak copyleft license felt like the right thing to do. The example website shipping with Midgard was X11 licensed. When I started working more seriously with JavaScript around 2011, I switched to the MIT license. This was a “do whatever you like, just don’t sue me” sort of a simple affair favored by the NPM package ecosystem. Easy interoperability, no hooks attached.
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