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Getting Forked by Microsoft (philiplaine.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

[MIT] does not allow removing the original license and purport that the code was created by someone else.

Sounds like it wouldn't matter which licence he used. Shitty behaviour from Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Microsoft's still has MIT license

[–] sik0fewl 51 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They deleted the original copyright notice which is basically the only requirement of the MIT licence. The software is stolen.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

You're right, that's gone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They deleted the original copyright notice which is basically the only requirement of the MIT licence. The software is stolen.

Lol reminds me of a movie...

 [the crew is being told their sweded movies have to be destroyed]

Mr. Rooney: "The FBI Warning is at the beginning of the tape."

Jerry: "But we erased that!"

-- Be Kind, Rewind (2008)