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Re:My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simul... by ilyt on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @04:00AM (#33606890)
Well, the MIT license worked exactly as it was written.
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Re:My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simul... by low_tech_love on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @04:04AM (#33606918)
What about "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."?
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Re:My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simul... by iso1631 on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @04:32AM (#33607105)
Were the flight simulators you can play on that github page originally MIT licensed?
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Re:My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simul... by low_tech_love on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @04:40AM (#33607145)
No, but I was just commenting about the license itself. At any rate, this is obviously not a regular thing to begin with.
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Re:My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simul... by int_19h on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @04:55AM (#33607236)
Most likely, it is included in some kind of ThirdPartyNotices.txt that ships with the game. It's actually pretty hard to sneak third party F/OSS under the radar in the company of this size - there's automated code scanners, among other things, and while they can't catch everything, they sure can flag a copy of a public project on GitHub.
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Re:My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simul... by lupire on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @09:57AM (#33609859)
What's an example of tool that scans binaries for matches with open source software?
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Re:My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simul... by ar_lan on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @10:04AM (#33609956)
I don’t think you’ll find one. Most of these operate on the source code and its declared dependencies.
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Re:My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simul... by omegabravo on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @10:21AM (#33610193)
Pretty sure Black Duck does that
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Re:My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simul... by EntityUnknown on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @05:45AM (#33621168)
At my previous org, we used black duck for this

https://www.synopsys.com/software-integrity/security-testing...

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Re:My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simul... by MostlyInnocent on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @11:54AM (#33611691)
I'm pretty sure that declaring https://github.com/s-macke/FSHistory/tree/master/data to be MIT-licensed does not actually make it so... (these are disk images of the relevant FS releases, which are still under copyright as well as provided under a proprietary MIT-incompatible license)

TL;DR: A Microsoft contractor basically endorsed piracy, in a weirdly-recursive-enough-to-be-legal way...

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