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This person is really confused about licenses and copyright. > Please note that this code is property of Valve-Software and any contributions that you make are
by dizhn 3y ago
This person is really confused about licenses and copyright.
> Please note that this code is property of Valve-Software and any contributions that you make are considered a donation into the public domain.
- ethanbond 3y agoLegitimately seems like a GPT-tier confusion. Just put all the somewhat-relevant words in a syntactically correct configuration and call it done.
- awestroke 3y agoWhat are you talking about? GPT4 would not do that kind of mistake. I must say, reading comments like this, that GPT4 actually comes across as more intelligent than many hn commenters
- DizzyDoo 3y agoHeh, it's like all those YouTube videos where someone uploads a song and the uploader puts "No copyright infringement intended" in the text description, sometimes with five or six exclamation marks just to really make sure they avoid the takedown.
- plorkyeran 3y agoOften they drop the "infringement" and just have "no copyright intended" because they don't actually know what copyright is beyond it being a word in the emails they get from youtube.
- paulddraper 3y ago"Credit to X"
- BasedAnon 3y agoThis is a common 'copyright infringement NOT intended ALL rights belong to X' type of widespread misunderstanding of how copyright actually works, and it's why I'm convinced that if most people understood copyright they would think it was absurd.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoThe sheer amount of YouTube videos where people put that as a disclaimer so think it's fine is kind of shocking.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- Spivak 3y agoWell to be fair YT has made it confusing because some of the time it is. Some artists allow fan uploads like that and just collect the ad revenue off it. So really in the modern era no copyright intended really is a message to the artist/label saying it's a fan video, they're not trying to impersonate the official one and asking for it to stay. The uploader might not know that that's what they're really asking but credit to YT for making this arrangement work to preserve some of the site's original culture.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoThe message means nothing though and is based on a poor understanding of how copyright works. If it's allowed the message is irrelevant, and i it's not allow it's also irrelevant as it will be ignored and the video removed.
- dmonitor 3y agoyoung people gonna do
- wastedbrains 3y ago[dead]
- arboles 3y agoUnlike other commenters, I think the author of the article meant to say you can't hope to license contributions built ontop leaked code, obviously, so it'll always be a gray area that one could call "public domain".
- kadoban 3y agoOne could call it pea soup and it'd be approximately as correct.
- arboles 3y agoHe's a hacker, not a laywer.
- kadoban 3y agoAnyone vaguely near software development really should have a working understanding of copyright though.
- dollarlord 3y ago[flagged]