• uservoid1@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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

      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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        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.

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        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

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        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?

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      5 months ago

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