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Hot Potato License (jlai.lu)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 103 points 2 years ago (1 child)

But in a moment of legal discovery, it was found that "GitLab Support Bot" always owns the repository since it creates the merge commit after CI runs.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)
    1. The bot is not a person and this cannot have the rights
    2. Just don't use something as fancy as that. CI for a HLP project? Wth are you doing, there aren't even tests
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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You don't have to be a person to have the rights of a person. That's what a corporation is.

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

    But the license mentions all of earths citizens. Corpos can't be citizens, right? Legal terms are confusing.

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