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0 pointswpietri11y ago0 comments

Great find. If that's as bad as it sounds, that could make an it an illegal derivative work, which would make for an easy DMCA claim.

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krschultz11y ago· 3 in thread

And now they were just DMCA'ed, rightfully so in my opinion.

If you believe in open source, then you need to be respectful of copyright law. It is the foundation for open source licensing.

icebraining11y ago

If you believe in open source, then you need to be respectful of copyright law. It is the foundation for open source licensing.

I don't see how that follows. I support open source, that is, the free distribution of software code. Open source licensing is just a necessary evil to account for the fact that copyright is anti-open-source by default. A few decades back, when the US and other countries required registration to copyright works, open source licensing would have been a ridiculous suggestion (except for copyleft licenses), even though open source itself would still make perfect sense.

pb2au11y ago

It depends on your meaning behind "free distribution", but arguably most open source licenses don't exist to provide that specifically -- they exist to permit it while abiding by the other conditions on the license.

For example, if you don't respect copyright law, you wouldn't be able to argue that a corporation taking GPLed code and incorporating it into a proprietary product is immoral nor taking BSD licensed code and removing a link back to the original author is immoral.

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wpietriOP11y ago

Indeed. Here's them acknowledging that:

https://github.com/libreboard/libreboard/issues/92#issuecomm...

danlec11y ago

Yeah… https://github.com/libreboard/libreboard/blob/master/client/... is the styling for a Trello easter egg (they're hotlinking the images off of Trello's cloudfront servers)

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