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Re:Winamp Legacy player source code by kadoban on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @08:20PM (#41642380)
It's not clear that Github's ToS can do such a thing, is it? What gives them the right to overrule the license from Winamp to me?
Re:Winamp Legacy player source code by yincrash on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @09:12PM (#41642648)
```Any User-Generated Content you post publicly, including issues, comments, and contributions to other Users' repositories, may be viewed by others. By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and "fork" your repositories (this means that others may make their own copies of Content from your repositories in repositories they control).```

Section D.5

Whoever the user that is posting the content is agreeing to the terms of service. If they don't actually have permission to agree to those terms with the content, then where that liability falls will likely fall to a court, but I'm sure I would argue as a user who forked the content, that I was given permission via the TOS which has to be followed by the user posting the content.

Re:Winamp Legacy player source code by codetrotter on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @09:01PM (#41642593)
Because Winamp agreed to the ToS of GitHub by uploading their code to GitHub.
Re:Winamp Legacy player source code by j16sdiz on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @10:17PM (#41643042)
The legal system don't work that way.

That ToS is between wimamp and GitHub, not you.

You have to do the due diligence to get the permission from winamp.

You might be able to get away by suing GitHub and have them sue winamp. ..

Re:Winamp Legacy player source code by ronsor on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @10:58PM (#41643279)
Re:Winamp Legacy player source code by kadoban on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @09:11AM (#41647106)
Is the ToS a contract? Even if it is would the remedy to Winamp breaking it be modifying the license Winamp provides?
Re:Winamp Legacy player source code by ronsor on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @10:41AM (#41648093)
Yes, every ToS is a contract. As for the most appropriate remedy, that's for a court to decide.
Re:Winamp Legacy player source code by kadoban on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @09:13AM (#41647123)
Doesn't that just mean that Github should be mad at them? Doesn't seem obvious that it actually gives me a license to do anything.
Re:Winamp Legacy player source code by mnau on Thursday September 26, 2024 @09:26PM (#41665385)
Pretty much all open source projects on GitHub rely on section D.6 of GitHub TOS (when you submit PR, it's licensed under project license and you have a right to do so).

TOS are not just fluff and paper, but legally binding. Granted, when there is a conflict between two conflicting requirements, it's never clear cut, but it's not just "GitHub will be mad."

Re:Winamp Legacy player source code by kadoban on Friday September 27, 2024 @02:15PM (#41673881)
Any project I've been involved in has its own explicit license, that allows such things (really allows much more, I don't touch anything closed source).
Re:Winamp Legacy player source code by neycoda on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @08:26AM (#41646592)
A repo's license doesn't overrule GitHub's policy.
Re:Winamp Legacy player source code by joshribakoff on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @10:00AM (#41647638)
The implication of this is not what you think. Basically github can go after Winamp and say they violated GitHub terms that is it. Just because winamp violated GitHubs terms of service does not mean they lose their copyright rights
Re:Winamp Legacy player source code by kadoban on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @09:16AM (#41647168)
Seems a lot like that would be the other way around, copyright law overrules random company's policy.