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420 points solcloud | 5 comments | 22 Oct 24 16:27 UTC | HN request time: 1.324s | source
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tokai ◴[23 Oct 24 12:25 UTC] No.41924295[source]▶
Still not open source many hours later after multiple people said to put a license on it. Calling something open source when its not is really not okay, and it is hurting free and open source software.
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solcloud ◴[23 Oct 24 12:49 UTC] No.41924533[source]▶
Yeah yeah yeah, I am hurting open source, my apology to open source
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lagniappe ◴[23 Oct 24 12:52 UTC] No.41924557[source]▶
>Yeah yeah yeah, I am hurting open source, my apology to open source

Not a great response. Do you know where you are right now?

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solcloud ◴[23 Oct 24 12:57 UTC] No.41924610[source]▶
Maybe I am just waiting for somebody to open PR for adding license cause it looks like everybody is lawyer these days
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Vinnl ◴[23 Oct 24 13:25 UTC] No.41924859[source]▶
Ah, well, if that's all: https://github.com/solcloud/Counter-Strike/pull/28

(It's kinda weird, because to make a PR, I had to make a fork, and then I added the licence to my fork, even though I'm not allowed to pick the licence, but )

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1. Capricorn2481 ◴[23 Oct 24 14:25 UTC] No.41925340[source]▶
They went with a more open license. Try to do better next time with your license choices. GNU is not nearly as open as the "DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE."

https://github.com/solcloud/Counter-Strike/pull/27/files

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2. Vinnl ◴[23 Oct 24 14:49 UTC] No.41925607[source]▶
Glad they did, because now my fork illegally adding a licence is legal again. Phew!
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3. solcloud ◴[23 Oct 24 14:57 UTC] No.41925704[source]▶
this is awesome :D
4. fluoridation ◴[23 Oct 24 18:39 UTC] No.41928019[source]▶
Just FWI, it's not illegal to add an incorrect license to a repository you don't have the rights to. It's simply a lie. The copyright notice is just a statement from the author, it doesn't per se define the terms under which the project is distributed. What defines them is the fact that it's the author who put the file there.
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5. Vinnl ◴[23 Oct 24 18:57 UTC] No.41928227{3}[source]▶
Heh, fair enough I suppose, though it's definitely not very nice to make people believe that I can give them permission to do things, when I don't.