What happens if I just break the rules of a software license?
What happens if I just break the rules of a software license?
Christopher Roberts
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Jayden Russell
get sued
Nathan Cruz
you get sued for copyright infringement and land in prison for 10 years*
*unless you're a highly paid executive, then it's just a fine
Justin Green
you will die painfull death
Aaron Hall
The very next night you fall asleep, RMS will creep up on your feet and eat shit out of them
Camden Collins
Nothing, most clauses of most licenses aren't even enforceable in the US let alone the rest of the world.
Lucas Rivera
it would be very painful
Jack White
Nothing at all
Oliver Collins
have GNUtards ever successfully sued someone?
Dylan Ramirez
>open source code says you can't use my code
>ctrl + c, ctrl + v
what are they going to do about it
Ryder Myers
There were some high profile cases in the 2000s where GNU sued companies shipping linux and busybox onto routers without releasing source code for their router firmware, recently, Vizio got sued by the software freedom conservancy for not respecting the GPL even though their whole smart TV interface is linux and free software.
Vizio claims GPL doesn't apply to them and that only the developers of the original software are entitled to the original source code and they never bothered to ask, that case is currently ongoing.
Grayson Gomez
You get arrested by the GNU/Police and go to BSD jail.
Carson Bennett
Most likely nothing. Unless they can demonstrate damages in court, they have no case against you. Most instances of people violating software licenses amount to nothing more than a few angry neckbeards screeching on the internet
Lucas Green
>He thinks that developing an application for Linux means it has to be released under the same license as the Kernel.
Angel Hill
Are you actually retarded?
Gabriel Wilson
Your argument for why they are bound by GPL is that their software runs on Linux. You are the retarded one. Plenty of proprietary applications run on Linux and it is not a software license violation.
Liam Collins
They modified linux to run on their smart TV and didn't publish their changes (whatever), and refuse to divulge source code when asked (illegal).
Lucas Powell
>is that their software runs on Linux
No you dumb negro look up what SmartCast is
Camden Brown
How is that not open and shut? They licensed the software and distribute it. The GPL is explicit in these matters.
Mason Wright
They tried to appeal so it would be tried in a jurisdiction that would be more sympathetic to poor """""american""" company being """""attacked"""" by what they characterized as harassment from a patent troll organization.
It didn't really work though.
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Anthony Roberts
no
lol
Jordan Reed
Depends how you break it. If you're doing something that gets on the radar of the application publisher, you might get a C&D telling you to knock it off, or a lawsuit. Otherwise, nothing fucking happens. Nothing happening is pretty much the default behavior.
Jayden Bell
they have lots of money to spend on lawyers
Joshua Sanders
my sides
Hunter James
>How is that not open and shut?
FOSS faggots are so retarded. Someone violating the terms of your software license doesn't mean you are entitled to anything. Either prove damages in court or shut the fuck up. If you can't prove damages, then go cry yourself to sleep or something.
Angel Powell
The dev comes and breaks your knees
Gabriel Edwards
>Be me
>Spend all day typing up copypasta
>It's beautiful
>Add a blurb stating that I give permission for anyone to use my copypasta under the condition that it is only ever posted on Any Forums
>Someone posts it to Reddit
>I sue them, because they violated the terms I laid out
>Courts say "we don't care"
>mfw