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Hot Potato License (jlai.lu)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 87 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    All rights reserved by......, except the right to commit to this repository.

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

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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)

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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".

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