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[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

They are nuts. Their license means that you give up all of your authorship rights to the code you contribute, and on top of that you’re not allowed to distribute modified source, nor can you fork the source for any purpose.

Edit: lol

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So many forks, lol.

Winamp go fork yourself!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

It really forks the llamas ass!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Does that actually matter?
I'm asking because license stuff is over my head, but I'd like to learn about it more.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They basically want free labor.

[–] Kissaki 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you only care about contributing improvements, no, it doesn't matter.

If you want to at least be recognized as an author, and be able to say "I made this", the license opposes that.

Waiver of Rights: You waive any rights to claim authorship of the contributions […]

I don't know how they intend to accept contributions though. I guess code blocks in tickets or patch files? Forking is not allowed, so the typical fork + branch + create a pull request does not work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Also, this isn't even compatible with copyright law in some countries. I.e here you can't give up authorship at all; you can only grant an irrevocable, perpetual license (that might even prohibit you from distribution yourself and such) but you'll always be able to say "I made this" no matter what their license says.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

The way I look at it is this: I want credit for the work I do, I should also be able to fork a repo that I work on, and I sure as hell don’t like giving up my rights if I can help it.

But others may feel different.

[–] sukhmel 2 points 2 months ago

I guess, opening a PR without forking is possible, but hey that's sort of incredibly bullshit idea