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Its great to see a corporate mail server crash thanks to accidentally sending an email to the @all mailing list Followed by the Reply-all "Please unsubscribe me" crowd. Followed by the Reply-all "Out of office reply" infinite loop as out of office replies respond to the out of office replies.
So guinness issued an apology (and hopefully didn't fire the person). And we got the certificates - as far as i remember - just for shipping and handling. Yay.
Years later, people on the list still write to "all" - its a weird group, with secret giving in common but nothing else. I wonder if anyone from this list is lurking here ...
The toothpaste is out of the tube - notifications are going to be scrutinized more in the future, from this point on. I got the email. And about 20+ responses to that email. Every person who replies to that issue triggers another 400k emails. Personally, my email client is crashing. EpicGames, as a GitHub org is an outlier, it's basically an SSO for Unreal Engine. I forgot I was even a member of it.
This already happened with github & epic & unreal when it first did this organisation setup. So, given no solution appeared after exact same incident, I wouldn't hold my breath
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Unreal engine is open source but in a private GitHub repo. Anyone can link their GitHub account with their epic games account which adds them to the team.
if it's open source but in a private repo, couldn't somebody just make a public mirror? open source implies the right to redistribute source code.
Edit: I doubt the license for this code is an OSI-approved one with this registration business. But I have not checked and I won't check.
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I don't quite get the mindset here. I'm (slowly and lazily) learning a new language, and can't imagine going into some native speaker's repo and trying to correct it...
This kinda looks like an attempt to get a commit into a bigger open source repository. It'd look nice on a resume to say you "contributed to Unreal Engine on GitHub".
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If you work from home, have a separate work laptop, but connect it to the same network with your home computers, it’s all for nothing.
How so? Hopping around in your home network should not be possible by default and would be a gross overreach by any IT department, even beyond “you put data on this device and therefore we will search the entire thing”.
Apparently you would also be surprised by how common it is to use a home printer, a home wifi access point, etc. and have IoT devices in the network. Corporate firewalls and scanners only protect against unauthorised connections and known threats; zero-day exploits can still be much more effective from a local network.
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Unreal engine is source-available with a royalty based license for commercial use. Just to avoid any confusion with "open source" and "Open Source"
Wait what? I never knew "open source" was different from "Open Source"
If you write your own licence (not recommended, but some developers and especially corporations do) it could be even fully compliant, but not approved.
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Unreal engine is source-available with a royalty based license for commercial use. Just to avoid any confusion with "open source" and "Open Source"
Wait what? I never knew "open source" was different from "Open Source"
Both of them are pretty poor descriptors. "open source" doesn't convey the legal freedom you are granted (as you have just found out), and "free software" makes it sound like it's just about price.
If someone lets you see source code but doesn't allow you to do anything with that code it's not what people would call "open source", you could probably call it source-available or something. "open source" has a specific legal definition that means code released with a permissive license.
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> Seems like an innocent enough mistake. I doubt it. If you look at the PR, it does not add any value at all, but introduces a mistake ("for our repositories"), plus the commit message is kind of strange.
Looks like a typical PR from young programmers who are learning English, which is consistent with the rest of the profile.
The better action would be to report the user as spam