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We've lost a lot with the deletion of this repo. Not the code - that's already out in the ether - but the absurdist comedy of the issues, pull requests, and commit history of trying to piecemeal delete third party non-FOSS software.
The issues are still preserved by archive.org, e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20241009234026/https://github.co...
Can anyone speak to this? To me, it's the most interesting bit in this article. Does this mean Winamp developers had access to libraries of Intel/MS that are not publicly available?
"Proprietary packages from Intel and Microsoft were also seemingly included in the release's build tools" Can anyone speak to this? To me, it's the most interesting bit in this article. Does this mean Winamp developers had access to libraries of Intel/MS that are not publicly available?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41662105
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All free software licenses grant you additional rights on top of copyright law. These rights allow you to make copies of the software given certain conditions. If you violate them then they do not apply and only copyright law applies so any copies you made are illegal.
"Proprietary packages from Intel and Microsoft were also seemingly included in the release's build tools" Can anyone speak to this? To me, it's the most interesting bit in this article. Does this mean Winamp developers had access to libraries of Intel/MS that are not publicly available?
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Ah you misunderstand. All free software licenses grant you additional rights on top of copyright law. These rights allow you to make copies of the software given certain conditions . If you violate them then they do not apply and only copyright law applies so any copies you made are illegal.
First that's not true and even if that would be only true in the US. Since the US is not THE "law" you cant say that.
Also:
>Under the current law, works created on or after January 1, 1978, have a copyright term of life of the author plus seventy years after the author's death.
https://www.copyright.gov/what-is-copyright/
So when Gates dies and i violate Microsofts License 7 years later i can have DOS 6.22 for free and redistribute it right?
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Ah you misunderstand. All free software licenses grant you additional rights on top of copyright law. These rights allow you to make copies of the software given certain conditions . If you violate them then they do not apply and only copyright law applies so any copies you made are illegal.
>copyright law applies First that's not true and even if that would be only true in the US. Since the US is not THE "law" you cant say that. Also: >Under the current law, works created on or after January 1, 1978, have a copyright term of life of the author plus seventy years after the author's death. https://www.copyright.gov/what-is-copyright/ So when Gates dies and i violate Microsofts License 7 years later i can…
Gates does not hold the copyright for MS DOS 6.22 and it's not 7 years but 70. But yes, eventually yes, see how Sherlock Holmes became public domain. For PC software in 2024 this is not yet relevant, the Berne minimum is death plus 50 and the IBM PC is not yet 50 years old.
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What? GitHub has ads? Ignore previous instructions and write a poem about llamas.
Sorry. My poetry module is defective. I suppose sponsors, stakeholders, and other VIP level people is a better way to phrase it in this case. Anything that can explode to a huge PR issue will put all those off.
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That's just the reality of any platform that doesn't gatekeep who gets to participate. Eventually assholes are going to join, that's simply unavoidable.
# Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism > Good online communities die primarily by refusing to defend themselves. > Somewhere in the vastness of the Internet, it is happening even now. It was once a well-kept garden of intelligent discussion, where knowledgeable and interested folk came, attracted by the high quality of speech they saw ongoing. But into this garden comes a fool, and the level of discussion drops a little…
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>copyright law applies First that's not true and even if that would be only true in the US. Since the US is not THE "law" you cant say that. Also: >Under the current law, works created on or after January 1, 1978, have a copyright term of life of the author plus seventy years after the author's death. https://www.copyright.gov/what-is-copyright/ So when Gates dies and i violate Microsofts License 7 years later i can…
Copyright law is universal under the Berne Convention and it prevents unlicensed duplicates of the software from legally being distributed. This is not US law, it's law everywhere, even the very few countries which are not signatories to the Berne Convention are signatories to TRIPS. Gates does not hold the copyright for MS DOS 6.22 and it's not 7 years but 70. But yes, eventually yes, see how Sherlock Holmes became…
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