No need to assume. Licenses do mean something to some people.Redirect Left wrote:So never assume licences mean anything to people.
I agree that licenses do nothing to stop some people stealing other people's work. So eh. Nor is anyone going to court over pixels for an open-source game.
But lack of licenses, or breaking of license terms also cause:
(1) community drama which is unpleasant and has to be sorted out and can cause people to stop contributing their work.
(2) service disruption due to copyright-holders filing DMCA takedown notices against the services by which content is distributed.