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Re:Claude 4 by dr_dshiv on Friday May 23, 2025 @12:08PM (#44074070)
“Anyone opensourcing anything while in the course of ‘commercial activity’ will be fully liable. Effectively they rugpulled the Apache2 / MIT licenses... all opensource released by small businesses is fucked. where the was no red tape now there is infinite liability”

This is my current understanding, from a friend not a lawyer. Would appreciate any insight from folks here.

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Re:Claude 4 by spiderfarmer on Friday May 23, 2025 @05:53PM (#44076962)
So you’re willfully spreading FUD in hopes someone will enlighten you?
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Re:Claude 4 by dr_dshiv on Friday May 23, 2025 @06:58PM (#44077353)
The law is real. What emotions would you suggest are appropriate?
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Re:Claude 4 by spiderfarmer on Saturday May 24, 2025 @12:41AM (#44078829)
Open Source is exempt, provided you don’t make a profit: https://kevinboone.me/open_source_liability.html
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Re:Claude 4 by dr_dshiv on Saturday May 24, 2025 @04:30AM (#44079694)
So it applies to anyone who figures out how to monetize open-source contributions. Seems like a major issue to me. Not exactly something that makes Europe a good place for tech.
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Re:Claude 4 by spiderfarmer on Monday May 26, 2025 @01:07AM (#44094138)
The US has the reputation that rich competitors will abuse the judicial system to sue you into bankruptcy. Still, a lot of people want to start their tech startup there.
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