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Re:Unity Silently Deletes GitHub Repo That Tracks Terms of S... by perryizgr8 on Thursday September 14, 2023 @11:01PM (#37517772)
You can say whatever you want in a contract. If the other party thinks it is illegal they take you to court and thr judge decides.
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Re:Unity Silently Deletes GitHub Repo That Tracks Terms of S... by TheRoque on Thursday September 14, 2023 @11:14PM (#37517867)
But it means that their legal teams say that it's legit already, so that's why most people assume that this is legal.
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Re:Unity Silently Deletes GitHub Repo That Tracks Terms of S... by moron4hire on Thursday September 14, 2023 @11:27PM (#37517957)
A lawyer friend of mine once told me that most of his job as a contract lawyer was basically a game to see if the other company's lawyers were paying attention and to take absolutely everything he could if they weren't.
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Re:Unity Silently Deletes GitHub Repo That Tracks Terms of S... by semi-extrinsic on Friday September 15, 2023 @12:18AM (#37518358)
But in that case there is a meeting of the minds where one party is supposed to read the terms and object to any that are unreasonable.

It's very different from the situation where one party retroactively changes conditions.

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Re:Unity Silently Deletes GitHub Repo That Tracks Terms of S... by meheleventyone on Friday September 15, 2023 @01:26AM (#37518818)
This is an extremely bad way to view a contract.
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