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Re:Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI serv... by gammateam on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:03PM (#18068167)
> I clicked thinking there was yet another scandal in the brewing but it's actually a software named volkswagen.

Thats the joke though. It passes tests for you even when they would fail. Like Volkswagen AG

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Re:Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI serv... by LinuxBender on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:23PM (#18068380)
I am not a lawyer, but if somewhere it says "a work of parody", that should suffice for fair use. That said, nothing stopping VW from raking them over the coals. Github would probably just take the repo or account down if it came to that.
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Re:Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI serv... by hangonhn on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:35PM (#18068524)
It doesn't even need to say it. Basically as long as the judge finds it funny and agrees it's satire, you're ok:

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/828...

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Re:Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI serv... by sampo on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:32PM (#18068488)
Europe tends to have less freedom for parodies than the US.
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Re:Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI serv... by TomMarius on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:35PM (#18068523)
This is OK though. (IANAL, but I've seen cases like this)
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Re:Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI serv... by LinuxBender on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:34PM (#18068511)
Good point.
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Re:Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI serv... by lixtra on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:30PM (#18068461)
I would expect vw to try this as low as possible. If they went to court they would learn about the Streisand effect.
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Re:Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI serv... by macintux on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @02:41PM (#18069189)
Well, their woes can't possibly be publicized any more widely, and 99.999% of the people who would read the news about such a lawsuit would have no use of the software, so I'm not sure the Streisand effect has any real meaning here.
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Re:Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI serv... by nickthegreek on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:08PM (#18068234)
maybe remove it a bit, like voltzwagone.
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