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TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS

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Re: TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS

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Post by vlovich123 »

kaetemi wrote: post #82
SergeAx wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a way to buy oneself out of GPL license? I beleive there's not.

Yea. Pay someone to write it from scratch. Basically, it's practically (not ethically) fair game to use GPL in commercial software, until someone catches you. The only repercussion that the license provides is that your license is revoked until you resolve the violation (for the first violation). Meanwhile, you got to release your product, and by the time you got caught you've had enough time to implement it yourself…

That’s not the only repercussion. They can sue for copyright infringement and there can be large fines.

Re: TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS

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Post by ghaff »

markus_zhang wrote: post #94

Open source software license should include a clause saying that it is mandatory for commercial users to pay a certain amount of contribution annually, let's say 0.01% of gross revenue? So if they find it too expensively they can simply turn away and build their own, which is good for whoever get the chance to do some lower level programming, and if they find it OK the open source authors/maintainers can get some goo…

Then it's not an open source software license.

Re: TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS

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Post by VWWHFSfQ »

markus_zhang wrote: post #94

Open source software license should include a clause saying that it is mandatory for commercial users to pay a certain amount of contribution annually, let's say 0.01% of gross revenue? So if they find it too expensively they can simply turn away and build their own, which is good for whoever get the chance to do some lower level programming, and if they find it OK the open source authors/maintainers can get some goo…

the goal of free software is _freedom_.

money has nothing to do with any of it.

Re: TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS

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Post by colejohnson66 »

vlovich123 wrote: post #96
daptaq wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember reading that it should be able for users to sue instead of the author, if they cannot ccess the source of GPL'ed software.

I’m fact it’s only the users who have standing to request the source. The author’s have standing to sue for copyright infringement.

Not at all true. It's copyright infringement if you're not following a license contract, of which the GPL is.

Re: TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS

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Post by Lhiw »

BusyLurker3K wrote: post #91
pshushereba wrote: post #11

China stealing intellectual property? If only we could have seen this coming!

This is a horrible take. A Chinese company stealing IP is very different from China stealing IP. Google was caught using IP from Sogou for its pinyin IME, but we don't say America stealing IP.

If you think the CCP doesn't have a hand in every major company or export you're naive.

Re: TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS

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Post by fathereatsass »

galgalesh wrote: post #65
andrew_ wrote: post #38

I'd like to see HN shy away from posting twitter threads as news. There's almost always a hard link to the source material, and twitter threads are filled with emotional, truncated, nuance-lacking, trite clips that more often than not do little to promote healthy discussion of a topic. The goal of quality here really is noble.

From the HN guidelines: > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

Re: TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS

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Post by criddell »

oliwarner wrote: post #70

It's concerning how many self-labelled software engineers on Twitter are chipping in with comments like "it's open source so it's fair game" or "they just need to add attribution".

It might not be like this everywhere, but in the US all software engineers are self-labelled. It's not like medical doctor (MD) or professional engineer (PE) where the title actually implies some license to practice.

Re: TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS

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Post by ollien »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #90
galgalesh wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the HN guidelines: > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

I think the complaint is more about twitter being an unreliable trash news source akin to the daily mirror, rather than pedestrian complaints of how the format is annoying

What makes Twitter any different in reliability than someone's blog? HN is filled with random blog links
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