• Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      They pulled a corporate and rewrote an opensource project to embed it into windows

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      Do you really need to license your comments?

      © 2024 Baggins@lemmy.ca - All Rights Reserved

      (Plz don’t sue me for making a derivative work based your comment and violating the license kthxbai)

        • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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          8 months ago

          I own my own instance. Your “license” is not accepted. Your instance sharing content with mine is an automatic agreement to my instance’s terms.

          1.2 Grant of License: By uploading User Content, you grant Saik0-Lemmy a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, copy, distribute, publicly display, and modify your User Content

          See how silly this is? Your license means nothing. It’s just wasted screen space. And nobody is pissed. People are just trying to talk sense to you.

    • 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      8 months ago

      Well, it’s under a permissive license, so there is little he can do legally, except maybe sue them for not mentioning the original project, which I’m sure they will add and that will be that eventually.

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        8 months ago

        That’s true. A little recognition would’ve been nice and I think that’s all he was asking for. Microsoft had a whole team work on it when they could’ve just given him a job to maintain it.

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