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If it had deleted files, or extracted user password data and uploaded it to pastebin you would agree it's a Trojan, yes? Your license agreement is not going to

If it had deleted files, or extracted user password data and uploaded it to pastebin you would agree it's a Trojan, yes? Your license agreement is not going to save you from the feds if you write code like that. So we are arguing where the line is. From what I understand, having not run the code myself, he wrote code that put the system into an infinite loop, i.e. he intentionally caused a hang. That crosses the line in a clear way, for me.

dathinab 5y ago
Then it would be a crime in more or less any country. Now the question is if it's hanging intentionally?(Software as-is) license only helps so much. Think the answer for this is not clear cut. Without question a line was crossed. I mean sure there are endless problems about how npm handles things, but it's more nounced. Like e.g. you needing to go out of your way to lock dependencies instead of it being some form of defaultish behaviour is a problem. People distributing CLI tools without having strict dependency locking is a even bigger problem/no-go. And this showing how careless some people are when it comes to distributing software is probably the most interesting thing.