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I told the judge that I didn’t kill anyone, the hitman I hired did! For some reason, he didn’t see it as you do.
by chrisoverzero 5y ago
I told the judge that I didn’t kill anyone, the hitman I hired did! For some reason, he didn’t see it as you do.
- hansvm 5y agoPerforming those actions on GitHub isn't important because it allows you to technically bypass a restriction by having a third party do it (which I agree is a poor defense) but because the author explicitly relinquished some rights by putting the project on GitHub.
- iamevn 5y agothe author does not relinquish rights to run the code. running it on a third party service does not magically launder the license.
- hansvm 5y ago> does not relinquish the rights to run the code I don't think anyone who's posted so far is a lawyer, but the claim is precisely that GitHub's ToS do relinquish the rights to run the code, so long as you only do so on GitHub and through their published interface. GitHub ToS> If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform Your Content through the GitHub Service and to reproduce Your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality (for example, through forking). > running it on a third party service does not magically launder the license Totally agreed. By uploading to GitHub publicly you've granted an _additional_ license and asserted that you had the legal right to do so. It's kind of like when open source projects will also sell a proprietary license on request -- companies aren't magically beholden to the GPL'd version just because it exists somewhere; they get to choose which of their available licenses they'd prefer to use.