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minus-squareSlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoMaybe they should have made sure their code was fully legal to use before releasing the game initially
minus-squarewizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoWhat? There’s a big difference between “legal to sell as a compiled binary” and “legal to release as source”.
minus-squareSlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoJust saying, if my highschool programming classes are any indicator, there’s a ton of released binaries out there that use copywritten and otherwise plaigarized code
minus-squareSheeEttin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoAnd that’s one of the big reasons companies don’t even think about open-sourcing their code.
Maybe they should have made sure their code was fully legal to use before releasing the game initially
What? There’s a big difference between “legal to sell as a compiled binary” and “legal to release as source”.
Just saying, if my highschool programming classes are any indicator, there’s a ton of released binaries out there that use copywritten and otherwise plaigarized code
And that’s one of the big reasons companies don’t even think about open-sourcing their code.