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Sounds very much like a Chinese PR OP. "Oh yeah we would've loved to attribute as per the license of the code we stole, but those dang online shops won't let us
by AllegedAlec 3y ago
Sounds very much like a Chinese PR OP. "Oh yeah we would've loved to attribute as per the license of the code we stole, but those dang online shops won't let us, so we just stole it and never mentioned it"
- dixie_land 3y ago[flagged]
- TheLoafOfBread 3y agoI wonder if it works the same when one would steal IP from Chinese company.
- ronsor 3y agoNice try, but Tencent cops will be at your door next week. Chinese companies stealing from each other is not counted, as the government makes them play "nice enough."
- DaiPlusPlus 3y agoTencent doesn't own anything worth stealing. If I suddenly found myself as the owner of TikTok I think I'd be terminally embarrassed.
- AllegedAlec 3y ago> if there is no monetary loss then it is "no harm no foul" and completely reasonable I think am important added phrase there would be for Chinese companies. They have no issues stealing from non-Chinese to those people's detriment.
- squarefoot 3y agoI don't know how much of the explanation by the Book8088 dev is bullshit, but he exposes a valid point which could be rephrased as: if you attribute copyright to the author, and someone else complains about anything, the platform can take down the product page immediately. We've seen this happening in similar contexts quite often, such as bogus DMCA complaints on YouTube that result in immediate takedowns and enormous efforts from the authors to reinstate the pages. Might be just PR, but the point is sound to me; copyright laws are necessary, but the way they're implemented is total crap.
- DaiPlusPlus 3y ago> if you attribute copyright to the author, and someone else complains about anything, the platform can take down the product page immediately I'm having trouble following your line of reasoning here...
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoIf you aren't the copyright holder to the work you are presenting you can't counter-assert your rights to publish against the takedown claim. I don't get how this applies to this situation. Since the copyrighted work isn't being "published" outside of the physical computer.
- kmeisthax 3y agoIn this case you have a license to republish the work (the GPL, if you followed it correctly), so you have rights to counter-assert.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoI'm sure Amazon, Google, and everyone else like them make it really difficult to communicate such nuance.
- jeroenhd 3y agoAs if they're going to check the copyright text on a laptop in the first place.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoAgain, I said I didn't see how it applied to this situation. I'm just writing in general about copyright and takedown notices.
- AshamedCaptain 3y ago