A self revoking license. You can only use or distribute this software if you’ve made the last commit.
Ok, I might be misunderstanding here, but since committing changes is allowed for everyone, doesn’t this mean fixing bugs is something you could do? You’d just be stuck with all the other rights as well until someone else makes a change.
the fact that there are this many people having different interpretations shows that the license would need waaaaaay clearer wording to hold any sort of water.
this is why i hate licenses like WTFPL and its ilk, just saying “do whatever” cannot possibly be legally viable and thus using anything with such a license is impossible by anyone who cares about copyright law (such as say, companies).
If you want your creations to be free for all to use, just slap a fat CC0 on it.
Yeah, the problem with the proposition is that you have all rights and access to the code regardless of who made the last commit, unless the last person to commit revoked the HPL.
The last person cannot revoke the right to make commits.
I have no idea what that implies about the right to change the license.
But in a moment of legal discovery, it was found that “GitLab Support Bot” always owns the repository since it creates the merge commit after CI runs.
- The bot is not a person and this cannot have the rights
- Just don’t use something as fancy as that. CI for a HLP project? Wth are you doing, there aren’t even tests
You don’t have to be a person to have the rights of a person. That’s what a corporation is.
But the license mentions all of earths citizens. Corpos can’t be citizens, right? Legal terms are confusing.
Corporations provide services, and service guarantees citizenship.
Hence how Melania came to be a Citizen
I would like to know more.
“It’s not my code” “It is now!”
This is how I handle code at work, almost. Program not working? Who has the last commit on the code? You get the question!
Way to discriminate against future people on Mars.
The Musk followers? Good.
As a Martian I feel left out.
What should I say??
Nah, we’re alright. I don’t think anyone has clearly defined the requirements of earth citizenship, we can assume it’s like Ireland who hand it out like candy
Share water, brother.
I grok
There are a few flaws.
There should be a clause forcing it to remain open source. Another clause should be that the license must not be changed. A warrenty and liability disclaimer would be also good. Otherwise a splendid license.
I would 100% use this HPL-v2 for all of my (temporary) foss projects. It’s just genius. I mean, good luck keeping track of the current owner, Nintendo lawyers.
The secret license everyone gets while working for an enterprise. If the previous dude left, good luck changing anything.
git commit --amend
git push --force
but why would you want to?
What happen when the repository is getting forked? Goofing with the license is all haha fun till nasty lawyers get into the picture and you get all sort of liability claims
Just writing words doesn’t make it legally binding. Anyone who reads this comment owes me $1,000,000 USD.
Oh shit, what’s your PayPal?
Anyone who reads this comment owes me $1,000,000 USD and a kiss
I don’t have 2 mil, how do I get out of this? File for bankruptcy?
on a technicality, debts like this are not legally dischargable through bankruptcy
Ah, the student loan loophole
What’s the opposite of a loophole? That’s what student loans are.
a legal dick jammed up your hole
I don’t have the money, can I kiss you twice instead?
You declaring a debt isn’t meaningful because you don’t have legal authority to do so.
A licence statement is describing in what way you’re granting permission for something you do have the right to control, which makes it meaningful
What the fuck are you talking about? Do you think the license being used is not legally binding? What constitutes as legally binding to you?
If you want to fork the repo then you make a commit to the original repo giving yourself rights then you make the fork and you’re golden.
I was gonna say, just make a commit changing the license to something else, like MIT?
I think this is a sort of anti-license, so I think the sort of people who use it reject copyright law.
Sounds like programmers with sovereign citizen approach
What happen when the repository is getting forked?
You get two code bases with different ownership.
That’s a very practical license, that reflects the concept as it is practiced. It’s probably the only one that doesn’t come from an ivory tower.
Removed by mod
Before I block you… Who “thought” you how to talk? How removed are they?
Imagine banning someone for giving shit to a scam bot. Massive L from the mods.