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		Dylan16807 on Jan 31, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if y... That's not true. I can go put the MIT license text in every folder on my computer and it won't actually apply the license to anything.

baobabKoodaa on Feb 1, 2023 [–]

Ok, it's not true in the general case, but it's true in this specific case. The project was intended to be an open source project from the beginning; we were intending to open source everything.

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