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Of course nobody is entitled to a free license. But if somebody posts code on a website where most of the public content is under free licenses and the TOS exp
by kijin 12y ago
Of course nobody is entitled to a free license.
But if somebody posts code on a website where most of the public content is under free licenses and the TOS explicitly dictates that you grant certain licenses to other users for free, I think we can all have a reasonable expectation that the code in question will also be under a free license. And if the expectation is broken without a clear indicator, that's a recipe for confusion.
- dwyer 12y ago> most of the public content is under free licenses Is it? I've read reports that all but a fraction of Github repos are single-commiter code dumps. > the TOS explicitly dictates that you grant certain licenses to other users for free Where? https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/ https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/ The only stipulation I see is: > By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and fork your repositories. Unfortunately, the TOS doesn't provide a clear legal definition of fork. Does it go beyond clicking the fork button and copying the repo across Github servers? Does it including cloning the repo to a local disk? Or running the code? Or maintaining a derivative project?