Skyblivion team says former volunteer is threatening to sue over code dispute

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• riskable@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What a douche. When you submit code to a project, you agree that your code will fall under that project’s license. If it’s under an open source license, there’s no “backsies.”

  Relevant metaphors:

  • Putting the cat back in the bag
  • Forcing the genie back into the bottle
  • Bitching with lawyers like Larry Ellison

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  • urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As far as I can tell there is no public source code beyond a few tools they use, and many those repos have no license. So while his actions are shitty, he didn’t legally give them code. From what it sounds like, he gave them a compiled asset with access to his source code, then revoked access to his source code repository, so they decompiled the asset and he’s suing them for that. Which he may have legal grounds to do,because I’m guessing this was occurring in the “let’s all make a mod together!” and there likely isn’t a formal contract signed that says “anything you contribute to the project is ours.”

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    • disorderly@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve worked on a few projects like this and there is a general expectation that if you contribute code built against a system you maintain separately from the shared project, you grant permission for the project to continue using it when you leave.

      I’ve also seen people threaten to sue on every one of them, and the one person who actually did got fucking rinsed.

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    • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I hate that I’ve worked at companies where some employees, searching the web for code, think that “no license” means anyone can use it copy-pasted for any purpose.

      I’m thankful that Stack Overflow and similar sites set in their terms that submissions become free to use, but in general blogs, it’s not an automatic conclusion.

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• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Good to know my "intellectual property is bullshit" rule of thumb still works.

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• veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The very fact that a threat to sue was possible and that the team preferred to roll back / remove the code indicates the situation was not legally clear cut when the code was submitted in the first place. And, come on, this was solved in the 90s!

  Did the submitter sign a legal document, backed by the project, to waive their rights and ownership of the code to the project specifically? If so, this is done. If not, this is done too.

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• esc@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They could have gone with free software license from the start or the fsf approach. 🥴

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If they were going to do that then it would’ve been OpenMW instead of some mod for a proprietary game.

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• FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What an asshole...

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  • veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Which one?

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    • FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The volunteer, what the fuck do they think volunteering is???

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• Anchorxiety@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just cancel it already we all know it’s coming

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