Re:Android++, native development and debugging for Visual St...
by DannyBee on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @07:30PM
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" I can't imagine anyone practically claiming any copyright violations as a result of any of this even if the license is legal mumbo-jumbo."
As mentioned, naturalmotion could actually probably sue every downloader/user for copyright infringement.
Would they?
Who knows.
Now practically, most of the time you are right. The problem is what is practical now doesn't always stay that way. Companies get acquired, change owners, people's monetary situation changes, etc.
More often than not shit gets weird before rights get extinguished.
So my experience is that 90-95% of the time, you are right, nobody cares, it all goes according to plan.
The other 5-10% of the time, it requires lawyers and a lot of money to unf*ck it.
Hacker news rarely hears about these cases, sadly.
So sure, if you want to play the odds, go for it.
But I find engineers are very Laissez-faire about this kind of thing right up until it comes down on them like a ton of bricks.
As mentioned, naturalmotion could actually probably sue every downloader/user for copyright infringement. Would they? Who knows.
Now practically, most of the time you are right. The problem is what is practical now doesn't always stay that way. Companies get acquired, change owners, people's monetary situation changes, etc. More often than not shit gets weird before rights get extinguished.
So my experience is that 90-95% of the time, you are right, nobody cares, it all goes according to plan.
The other 5-10% of the time, it requires lawyers and a lot of money to unf*ck it.
Hacker news rarely hears about these cases, sadly.
So sure, if you want to play the odds, go for it. But I find engineers are very Laissez-faire about this kind of thing right up until it comes down on them like a ton of bricks.