What happen when the repository is getting forked? Goofing with the license is all haha fun till nasty lawyers get into the picture and you get all sort of liability claims

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 58 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Just writing words doesn't make it legally binding. Anyone who reads this comment owes me $1,000,000 USD.

[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 41 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Oh shit, what's your PayPal?

Anyone who reads this comment owes me $1,000,000 USD and a kiss

[–] oessessnex@programming.dev 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't have 2 mil, how do I get out of this? File for bankruptcy?

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

on a technicality, debts like this are not legally dischargable through bankruptcy

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah, the student loan loophole

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What's the opposite of a loophole? That's what student loans are.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago

a legal dick jammed up your hole

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

I don't have the money, can I kiss you twice instead?

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago

If anyone I owe money to reads this, the debt is reversed.

I'll take the kiss though

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ofcourse its legally binding. If you include a license text with your own code on a platform that doesnt have a clause to license your code under different terms, then that license is legally valid.

But writing the license yourself without making sure that it doesnt allow for any legal loopholes is a bad idea.

[–] MartianSands@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

You declaring a debt isn't meaningful because you don't have legal authority to do so.

A licence statement is describing in what way you're granting permission for something you do have the right to control, which makes it meaningful

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

What the fuck are you talking about? Do you think the license being used is not legally binding? What constitutes as legally binding to you?

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you want to fork the repo then you make a commit to the original repo giving yourself rights then you make the fork and you’re golden.

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 points 5 months ago

I was gonna say, just make a commit changing the license to something else, like MIT?

[–] Faresh@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think this is a sort of anti-license, so I think the sort of people who use it reject copyright law.

[–] uservoid1@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Sounds like programmers with sovereign citizen approach

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

What happen when the repository is getting forked?

You get two code bases with different ownership.

That's a very practical license, that reflects the concept as it is practiced. It's probably the only one that doesn't come from an ivory tower.