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Is there a thing that's like "by using this service you put your work in the public domain" kinda thing?
by ionforce 8y ago
Is there a thing that's like "by using this service you put your work in the public domain" kinda thing?
- icebraining 8y agoNo, npm only says you give them a license to allow them to serve the package to users; other than that, you're free to license it however you want.
- Wowfunhappy 8y agoSo the bank shouldn't be able to send DMCA takedown notices, right? Because they granted npm the license to redistribute the package.
- lgeorget 8y agoI think they can argue that the code is their property and that the employee that published it on NPM had no mandate from the company to do so. So it's effectively "stolen code" in a sense, just as if the employee had done it to harm the company on purpose.
- kccqzy 8y agoNo one would use such a thing. Very few open source code is in the public domain. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is SQLite.
- jessaustin 8y agoIn fairness, the bank in question might use such a thing, because they have difficulty making decisions that abide by their own policies.
- 0xfeba 8y agoThere is a `private` setting in the package.json to avoid this situation.