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The difference appears when copyrighted material is repeated verbatim. And because it's obvious Github has no control over how much copyrighted material is bein
by joe_the_user 5y ago
The difference appears when copyrighted material is repeated verbatim. And because it's obvious Github has no control over how much copyrighted material is being repeated verbatim. And that copyrighted material is intended to be used by commercial companies who copyright their own material and don't want to have their copyright challenged.
- ineedasername 5y agoUnder US rules at least, everything automatically falls under copyright. But if the license allows full use even for commercial purposes, verbatim repetition is no different in this context than if I included it in my own new piece of software. (Of course attributions and distribution of the code & modifications would frequently be requires... with Pilot it's... potentially a gray areas on whether code lumps together with countless other software is actually modified in the traditional sense of the term, but attribution should still be an obvious requirement. And where the other license requirements are strictly required or not, I still think it would be the right thing to do for GitHub to honor the spirit of those strictures, especially considering their entire business model is based on a majority of users trusting their code to them. If they're not going to act accordingly, there's no reason someone couldn't roll their own GitLab instance, or a competitor with more respect enter the marketplace.