3 ms·
Does it make you more vulnerable to law suits if the author says no and you decide to code/acquire something similar?
by tommi 15y ago
Does it make you more vulnerable to law suits if the author says no and you decide to code/acquire something similar?
- bmelton 15y agoHonestly, I don't know. I'd suppose it depends more on the sort of thing we're talking about than anything. If it's something like "Obtvse", or a fully formed system and you're copying it outwardly, then probably yes. If it's a ilbrary that fetches RSS feeds as part of a larger system, I'm guessing no. Of course, it also depends significantly on the author. If it's a public git repository, one assumes that it's something people wish to be forked. Though I suppose an interesting experiment would be to publicly post closed source code with a closed source license attached as honeypots and sue everyone that forks / modifies your code base.
- benmanns 15y agoYes, however, GitHub's Terms of Service section F.1. (http://help.github.com/terms-of-service/#f_copyright_and_content_ownership http://help.github.com/terms-of-service/#f_copyright_and_con...) specifies "By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and fork your repositories." I suppose you could write a license that allows others to view and copy your code, but not make any modifications, as fork doesn't seem to be defined to include modification.