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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.
That doesn't solve the problem that Twitter is, in fact, a popular link destination and a giant pain to load on slow devices.
TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
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#122It ends up being close to impossible to enforce these licenses.
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Consider donating to the EFF as a Christmas present to yourself
eff doesn't do license enforcement. Software freedom conservancy is the organization to support in this case: https://sfconservancy.org/
https://fsf.org as well.
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You can have both IMHO.
sure but they're not compelled by the license itself. They are compelled to pay for the software in the form of hiring developers to work on it, donating to the foundation behind it, etc. Companies like Red Hat have done this very successfully for a long time because they prefer to keep the supply chain feeding the lifeblood of their enterprise healthy.
Maybe a dual license then?
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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.
Common misconception, but Software Engineer is actually a licensed profession in many states (with vague industry exemptions): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_professio... But virtually nobody does it. The NCEES even abandoned their Software Engineer licensing exam a few years ago because nobody was taking it.
In Europe being an engineer has civil accountability on issues.
You can be fined really high if you hire a self-called engineer without a proper degree. Or at least decades of alleged experience in the field.
Re: TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
#126At this point, would it even hurt TikTok to open source their code? The network effect and user profiles are their moat, not their codebase.
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#127Re: TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
#128Could someone please help explain to me and (others who might not know) what is the concrete problem caused by this forking that doesn't comply with the license?
Read the GPL. You can't fork without releasing the source code. Unless you buy a commercial license (if they sell that).
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#129First thought while reading headline: this is why copyleft is useful.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Common misconception, but Software Engineer is actually a licensed profession in many states (with vague industry exemptions): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_professio... But virtually nobody does it. The NCEES even abandoned their Software Engineer licensing exam a few years ago because nobody was taking it.
Lightly glancing it seems like there are hard requirements for a college education for some of these. That’s a hard-stop for many (including myself.)