IP is many things and I am strongly against software patents! A regime under which I can accidentally infringe on somebody's right unless I know all the patents is just stupid.
Copyright though ... if you use my code and don't honor the license contained in my repo, ...
what are you going to do if a chinese doesn't honor your license? or someone in Mozambique? why does it matter at all?
Because it still matters in many jurisdictions and you can sue someone in the US from outside it as I understand. My main example is what if Amazon doesn’t need to ask or pay you to sell your software, they can copy your 1000 hours work, rebrand it, make money using their brand. Either in the retail or cloud divisions. They do this already with permissive licensed software but at least those vendors had a choice. With no copyright and licenses there will be no choice for anyone.
I don't care... they can do whatever the fuck they want with my work, I'm making it for anyone interested in it, including amazon. If amazon can make some bucks from my work, good for them.
Then there is a license for your choice sir! MIT perhaps? Or declare a it PD.
my license is no license at all. I don't play the game.
here's what alphaama says: `alphaama is open source without any license, fuck that shit, therefore, do whatever the fuck you want with it.`
I agree 100%. fuck this shit and I don't care about licenses, I won't try to restrict anyone from using stuff I've published and I won't respect anyone's licenses or whatever the constraints they pose on if I can get away with that without being harmed by a bandit with a gun.
I only sometimes put licenses in my github repositories because people ask because they are afraid of using my publicly available code if I don't have a legally-binding shit license there.
that's what IP and copyright laws do, they instill fear. fuck them.
there is definitely a choice for you: if you don't want someone to use your code just don't publish it.
what if I accidentally use your code and thus infringe your license? for example, I may hire someone to write code for me and that person may copy-paste stuff from your github without giving the required attributions. what happens then? am I an evil person now?
Well, you would be responsible for your code and therefore should only hire responsible devs that honor licenses.
My work is almost all under permissive licenses but when I opt for GPL style, I do reserve the right to require derived work to also be open and only strong copyright gives that control.
