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To be fair, Honey could easily bypass the blocklist redistribution legal issue by downloading filter lists at runtime from the official source. Then they aren't
by Sephr 2y ago
To be fair, Honey could easily bypass the blocklist redistribution legal issue by downloading filter lists at runtime from the official source. Then they aren't redistributing the resources.
Update: It looks like they're also using code from uBO without attribution or authorization. That's most likely illegal.
- Raed667 2y agoread the thread, people also found that it also stole code from uBO
- mainframed 2y agoI would be careful handing out legal advice as a non-legal expert, especially when it is about "bypassing legal issues". You might be doing someone a big disservice. @readers: Obligatory notice: Don't base your business decision on random internet comments.
- loeg 2y agoThis is excessive. Any fool taking legal advice from pseudonymous internet comments is getting what they paid for.
- mainframed 2y agoOk. Got it. Next time, I'll leave probably false legal advice unchallenged.
- loeg 2y agoIt's fine and good to disagree with/challenge wrong comments. But you don't need to do this meta commentary cautioning the mere act of commenting. If Sephr is wrong, just say that!
- mainframed 2y agoOk. You are right. I think he is likely wrong, but I'm not a lawyer either. Just someone who researched this a lot for my own projects/company. If that was true, all user-side aggregations would be considered as separate projects. I think it might be possible to circumvent the GPL license, when the URL to the list would be user-configurable and the program also worked without the list.