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I'm not understanding this situation from the perspective of intellectual property. This new project probably doesn't have the copyright of the author??
by CrimsonCape 5y ago
I'm not understanding this situation from the perspective of intellectual property. This new project probably doesn't have the copyright of the author??
- jeroenhd 5y agoI doubt the original author had a trademark on the name "Faker" [0] and the MIT license the project was published under allows anyone to re-upload the source code to the internet and subsequently modify it. The copyright to the original code still belongs to the original author, of course, but the author has chosen to license his code in such a way that this is a perfectly fine thing to do. This is the power (and, for some, the weakness) of open source. [0]: I can only find one live registration by the name "Faker" here, and it's not in the same segment as computer software https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4801%3A24m7xl.1.1&p_search=searchss&p_L=50&BackReference=&p_plural=yes&p_s_PARA1=&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA1%24LD&expr=PARA1+AND+PARA2&p_s_PARA2=Faker&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA2%24COMB&p_op_ALL=AND&a_default=search&a_search=Submit+Query&a_search=Submit+Query https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4801%3A...
- udbhavs 5y agoFrom the linked article: > Faker was first implemented in Perl in 2004 by Jason Kohles
- jefftk 5y agoIt's open source: https://github.com/faker-js/faker/blob/main/LICENSE https://github.com/faker-js/faker/blob/main/LICENSE