Re:TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
by babypuncher on Friday December 17, 2021 @05:54PM
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It is absolutely problematic. Corporations will go to hell and back to make sure their IP rights are respected. The open source community should expect nothing less from them.
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Re:TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
by squarefoot on Saturday December 18, 2021 @03:13AM
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My experience in companies using FOSS licensed code is a bit dated, but back then their opinion was more close to "we can do as we want with their code, those are just a bunch of hippies".
I'm sure things have changed in almost two decades, but the sooner TikTok gets a letter from a law firm, the better.
Re:TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
by delfinom on Monday December 20, 2021 @08:46AM
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The problem is almost entirely because the hippies don't have money for the law firm or lawsuit. Only by projects joining groups like GNU or The Linux Foundation or Apache do the hippies suddenly have lawyers on tap.