Section 4 is what gets me. Your rights are temporary and revokable meaning the the rest of the license doesn’t matter in the long term
## Section 4: Termination, suspension and variation
1. We may suspend, terminate or vary the terms of this license andany access to the code atanytime, without notice, forany reason orno reason, in respect ofany licensee, groupof licensees orall licensees including as may be applicable any sub-licensees.
Rossmann stated that this license is to keep fake versions riddled with ads or similar scammy stuff from mudding the water. I’m sure he agrees that this is not optimal.
My problem with this is, what stops people from simply violating the license anyways? Is futo going to go after every license violator? Do they even have the power to do so?
I’ve seen people make adware versions of closed source apps as well, so even not having the code public and online doesn’t stop people.
Same way Firefox does. Trade marks. They want to protect the reputation of their trade marks, that is enforceable, and then they can let people fork to their hearts content (waterfox, iceweasle, librewolf, the tor browser, etc).
Section 4 is what gets me. Your rights are temporary and revokable meaning the the rest of the license doesn’t matter in the long term
## Section 4: Termination, suspension and variation 1. We may suspend, terminate or vary the terms of this license and any access to the code at any time, without notice, for any reason or no reason, in respect of any licensee, group of licensees or all licensees including as may be applicable any sub-licensees.deleted by creator
Rossmann stated that this license is to keep fake versions riddled with ads or similar scammy stuff from mudding the water. I’m sure he agrees that this is not optimal.
My problem with this is, what stops people from simply violating the license anyways? Is futo going to go after every license violator? Do they even have the power to do so?
I’ve seen people make adware versions of closed source apps as well, so even not having the code public and online doesn’t stop people.
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Same way Firefox does. Trade marks. They want to protect the reputation of their trade marks, that is enforceable, and then they can let people fork to their hearts content (waterfox, iceweasle, librewolf, the tor browser, etc).