Licence violates github TOS · Issue #6 · WinampDesktop/winamp
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No Distribution of Modified Versions: You may not distribute modified versions of the software, whether in source or binary form. * No Forking: You may not create, maintain, or distribute a forked ...
  • Dagamant@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 months ago

    I feel like this repo is bait. The license is bad and violates the TOS but if they can convince a judge that it’s legally binding then they already have over a hundred targets who have forked it. They really messed up by including the shoutcast source and some Dolby code, although the Dolby stuff is questionable.

    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
      17·
      2 months ago

      If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform Your Content through the GitHub Service and to reproduce Your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub’s functionality (for example, through forking). You may grant further rights if you adopt a license. If you are uploading Content you did not create or own, you are responsible for ensuring that the Content you upload is licensed under terms that grant these permissions to other GitHub Users. -https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service#5-license-grant-to-other-users

      License can’t really revoke that.

      • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
        4·
        2 months ago

        True, but the same judge who would say that this means Github’s AI tools can harvest and regurgitate code that you upload as its own would have a good chance of ruling that the Winamp BS license is valid and the forkers have to fork over money.

        But there is the fact that the company is based in Brussels and their license apparently breaks Belgian law 😂

  • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
    41·
    2 months ago

    gnuplot surprisingly also has a strange license, containing “Permission to modify the software is granted, but not the right to distribute the complete modified source code.”

    • Baleine@jlai.lu
      3·
      2 months ago

      You left out the end: "Modifications are to

      • be distributed as patches to the released version. Permission to
      • distribute binaries produced by compiling modified sources is granted,
      • provided you"