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Indeed they are not a lawyer. A lawyer would know that this is not illegal. It violates the rights of the copyright holder, but that’s not a crime.
edit: I stand corrected
This reads like an old lady harping over nothing consequence. Did the author of TFA try to contact the Gentoo folks about this discrepancy before writing this incendiary blog post assuming negative/incompetent/ignorant intent? People are doing their level best to be respectful of other's wishes, but it's tough to account for every edge case. Is the author of the unlicensed code upset? It doesn't seem so. Why not be p…
Last time I saw such disregard for software licenses, it was packaged up and branded as GitHub Copilot.
better license too!
Author of ripgrep here. Maybe, umm, don't depend on auto-detection tools as the ultimate source of whether something is appropriately licensed or not? encoding_rs is clearly licensed, otherwise I wouldn't have used it in ripgrep: https://github.com/hsivonen/encoding_rs Take it up with the auto-detection tools. Or at least do your due diligence before claiming ripgrep is using "unlicensed" code. The Debian copyright n…
Sure, BSL is an obviously free license that is basically just a wording variant of MIT, but it is not showing up in that grep. Note: I’ve not actually read the copyright file, So perhaps It is clearly accounted for there, but is just not formatted in a way that the grep query used can find it.
The title feels very cheesy and reeks of clickbait. The fact that it claims the distribution of the program is illegal, and then rushes in with "I am not a lawyer." to signal uncertainty, does not leave a very good taste in my mouth.