Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]

Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by ghoward on Saturday December 25, 2021 @11:16AM (#29684429)

IANAL, but I have written licenses for that purpose. [1] (I'm trying to get them reviewed by a lawyer, but can't afford to; maybe I'll do a GoFundMe.)

What I did is say that if you feed copyrighted software to an algorithm that itself outputs software, then the license applies to the output. This covers the output of compilers and such, but it would also cover Copilot in my opinion. We'll see what a lawyer says.

However, even with a license, I wouldn't doubt that Microsoft would just put it through GitHub anyway because finding them out would be extraordinarily hard.

[1]: https://yzena.com/licenses/

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Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by xigoi on Saturday December 25, 2021 @02:00PM (#29685936)

The “Yzena Copyleft License” states that it's a copyleft license, but it also states that it's not a viral license. According to Wikipedia, a viral license and a copyleft license are the same thing.

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Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by ghoward on Saturday December 25, 2021 @02:44PM (#29686314)

Wikipedia is not the best source of information.

There is a difference between "strong" copyleft and "weak" copyleft. An example of "weak" (non-viral) copyleft is the CDDL. In fact, the CDDL's Wikipedia page talks about strong and weak copyleft.

You can read [1] for a breakdown of copyleft by an actual lawyer. Suffice it to say that Wikipedia's Copyleft page is woefully inadequate.

[1]: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2018/10/24/How-to-Speak-Copyl...

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Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by xigoi on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @01:48PM (#29728295)

If the Wikipedia article is misleading, it probably shouldn't be linked in the license…

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Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by ghoward on Thursday December 30, 2021 @12:24AM (#29733921)

I link to Wikipedia as a first point of call. People should always look deeper, and I can't help that.

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