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While that sounds perfectly reasonable to me, I wonder if it's that enforceable? That sounds like the public domain to me. Can a company declare "by doing X o
by chops 17y ago
While that sounds perfectly reasonable to me, I wonder if it's that enforceable? That sounds like the public domain to me. Can a company declare "by doing X on our system, you hereby release your IP into the public domain?"
- ajkirwin 17y agoSure they can. And you then have the choice NOT to use it.
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoPlease see: http://mattmaroon.com/2009/05/01/hacker-news-disease/ http://mattmaroon.com/2009/05/01/hacker-news-disease/
- ajkirwin 17y agoI'm sorry, but what the hell does that have to do with my comment that a company can make you agree to licencing terms to use their product?
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoI read the question as being: is it legally enforceable for a company to have in their TOS that you release your IP into the public domain if you do X on their platform? Are you an IP attorney or in any way qualified to answer that question? Matt's post was about people on HN answering questions that they are in no way qualified to answer, just because they're intelligent in some other unrelated area. Your post seemed like a perfect example.
- ajkirwin 17y agoI would say you could easily draw a paralell between this and companies including GPL software (and their ilk) and such into products, who are then forced to comply with the licencing terms and make entire source codes available.
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoI think you're missing the point.
- wheels 17y agoNot necissarily. You can't write something into a contract that's not legal and still have that clause be enforceable. Stuff that's not legally enforceable is written into contracts all of the time. The question was whether or not this is one such clause, and the point of this sub-thread was that none of us seem to actually know the answer to that.