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

Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by dado3212 on Saturday December 25, 2021 @12:30PM (#29685024)

when $new_repo in $msft_github: echo $standard_license > LICENSE.md

Could just be normal practices, and doesn’t check if a license already exists because it’s usually handling non-forked OSS repos. What’s the phrase? “Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence”.

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Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by dangrossman on Saturday December 25, 2021 @01:38PM (#29685722)

They forgot that a bot may overwrite the license when they fork a repo. That's different from forgetting to check if a license exists.

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Re:Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyri... by dado3212 on Saturday December 25, 2021 @02:52PM (#29686381)

I don’t know why people assume the more money you make the more infallible you are. Trust me that every FAANG engineer has written code with some similar pitfall that seems so obvious from the outside.

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