TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS

Re:TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS by vlovich123 on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:05AM (#29594031)

I’m fact it’s only the users who have standing to request the source. The author’s have standing to sue for copyright infringement.

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Re:TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS by colejohnson66 on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:08AM (#29594078)

Not at all true. It's copyright infringement if you're not following a license contract, of which the GPL is.

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Re:TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS by vlovich123 on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:32AM (#29594448)

The GPL contract only says you have to distribute source to the users you give binaries to. The only people who can ask for said source are the people receiving those binaries and the only people who have standing to sue when that doesn’t happen is the copyright owners.

That’s why you can use GPL software in your private CI system and not need to give anyone the source code.

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Re:TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS by pabs3 on Friday December 17, 2021 @09:22PM (#29600919)

Hopefully the SFC lawsuit against Vizio will set the precedent that any recipient of GPL binaries has standing to sue:

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html

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Re:TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS by colejohnson66 on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:11PM (#29595054)

I see I misread your comment. My apologies.

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