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[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 87 points 5 months ago

Am I just bad at reading? It says the right to make changes is granted to everyone one Earth. That would include the last person to make a commit as well, assuming they're a citizen of Earth. I'm sure what you're saying is what it's supposed to say, but it isn't actually what it says.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 5 months ago

Being a legal license it requires much more rigorous and clear statement

[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 44 points 5 months ago

You can't just ignore the second part of that sentence which gives the right to make commits to all citizens of earth. That would include the person who wrote the last commit.

[-] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 23 points 5 months ago

Yeah, that should read "all other citizens of earth".

[-] MartianSands@sh.itjust.works 23 points 5 months ago

I'm pretty sure it means exactly what it says, but you lot are all misreading it.

I interpret it as "all rights, except the right to commit, are reserved" (which doesn't mean you surrender the right to commit, but rather that it's the only right you aren't depriving everyone else of)

[-] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 12 points 5 months ago

And I'm pretty sure that the name "hot potato license" and the comment above the license are very strong indicators for this not being the case. The license is meant to mimic a game of hot potato where you get the code for a short moment (one commit) and have to throw it to someone else. Sure, the analogy doesn't quite work because you can't decide who has to make the next commit but it would make even less sense if you were able to keep control over the code and add more and more commits. That would defeat the whole point of naming it "hot potato license".