>get a real job >working for a real company >making good money >first major job >hey so user can you take this open source thing and remove these cool features and remove all branding so we can say its proprietary thanks
jesus fucking christ
its my first fucking job...how can I stand up for myself here? No wonder this mess happened...they get you the first moment they can. I suggested potentially having issues with the task and they said there's another guy who had basically just as good a chance at getting the job. wtf
Welcome to the real world kiddie. It's sink or swim
Austin Young
You are getting an easy job, just do it.
Luis Butler
Sounds like a shit place to work. Here we embrace open source and pretty much exclusively work with it, anything in house we make is made from scratch to fill some purpose, or we submit upstream patches.
Angel Butler
is anyone clean? has everyone done something at least this dirty? Is this just how it is? You gotta dirty your hands and try to wash the blood off later? It would also be 'easy' to scam people, but I'm never going to do that because its WRONG
what are you a communist
Jose Richardson
>its my first fucking job...how can I stand up for myself here
You don't. You suck dick not the other way around.
Aiden Morris
No, just easier to work with open source tech for the most part and means nothing is entirely off the table to start using as long as there is a decent case for it.
Tyler Reyes
but how am I supposed to do the right thing then?
How can I claim to be moral and justified in my beliefs if I can't even follow them myself?
Has everyone lied to me? Did stallman make proprietary software too? wtf I feel like the ground is falling out from under me
Michael Carter
>Here we embrace open source and pretty much exclusively work with it I envy you. I recently had to explain jQuery to my boss, and they seemed to take issue with the fact that you don't need to pay for it and you don't need to install it (they don't quite understand JavaScript).
David Mitchell
Yeah. It's pretty neato, also comes in handy since all that stupid shit I did during college in my off time is 100% relevant since everything we work with is Linux or open source. Not a single Windows machine anywhere.
Josiah Cruz
Your company can be sued for a lot of money if the open source license doesn't allow for what you're doing.
Robert Harris
You're not doing the wrong thing. The company is. You don't have to worry about it. They'll get their due for it.
Ethan Jones
its the MIT license
they can basically do whatever they want, just as long as the license stays. Afaik they aren't planning on actually ever saying its proprietary, just heavily implying.
Cameron Butler
>How can I claim to be moral and justified in my beliefs if I can't even follow them myself?
Gotta deal with capitalism until we reach post-scarcity.
Eli Brown
>le post-scarcity meme kys
Juan Parker
was this part of ((their)) plan?
Justin Howard
>get real job >work for a real company >first major job >hey so user we need to pick a framework for a new mobile app, so you're gonna need to find a good open source framework for our needs then get back to me on that thanks sucks to be you lad :^)
Carson Wright
You tell them what you think is wrong legally and morally. If they do not care, then you must resign.
Blake Young
Just fucking do it and then trade a whistle blow for a comfy job with the EFF or GNU foundation.
Elijah Cox
Literally complaining about having an easy job.
Logan Gray
>is anyone clean? The company I work for is pretty anal about licenses, we've steered away from shit which had even a minute chance of biting us in the ass and it's not a small company either, it's a multinational corporation with thousands of employees.
What you're being asked to do is completely ridiculous.
Joshua Kelly
Deluded freetard Stallmanite crying at renaming some piece of fucking code. Who cares. Save your emotional crisis for something that actually matters you weak moron.
Nathan Powell
>Has everyone lied to me? Did stallman make proprietary software too? wtf I feel like the ground is falling out from under me
holy shit you sheltered fuck, you're acting like the world is ending because a company is using some random FOSS code for something
what is wrong with you? seriously
Hunter Cruz
When we reach post-scarcity I'm going to hack your Fully Automated Luxury Communism VR machine to profit off the labor you "choose" to do in it.
Sebastian White
Isn't this what the bsd license is for?
Aiden Lopez
Blow the whistle anonymously later, it'll be lulzy. Contact the maker of the original open source thing and offer proof of what happened after your company has released it and you've secured other work. ;)
David Cooper
(((You))) mean (((their))) plan? Yeah.
Jaxson Wood
Gee whiz OP, can you tell me the company? I'd like to work for them, too.
Connor Taylor
i guess this can't come back to me... its microsoft.
John Adams
Keep logs of everything, all communications, all sauce code changes. Get a better job in like 3 years, then blow dat whistle, and watch them burn. Thats what they get for not respecting software freedoms.
Easton Walker
You work for Microsoft?
Can you take control of my mouse curser and install Candy crush right now?
Samuel Martinez
And this is why you use GPLv3 for all your personal projects.
Jaxson Hall
If It's GPL just tip FSF and the author of the software about confirmed GPL violations and hope for the best (FSF spends absolute fuckload of money on lawyers)
If it's anything but GPL, you can't do shit, permissive licenses were created for that purpose
Kayden Martinez
yes and no. I'm just a junior dev.
Colton Bell
>can you explain your contributions at your previous workplace? >yeah I sucked up to them like a bitch for 3 years then fucked em up with a sucker punch as soon as I left.
When do you think they'll call back?
Owen Reed
I know a guy who's first job was ripping "Made in China" stickers off of tools and relabeling them "Made in USA." Just get the job done or quit. You'll be the same idiot that can be replaced either way. Remember that, as long as you're in a white-collar industry, you can ALWAYS be replaced.
Dylan Anderson
Just make sure to collect solid evidence to back it up. Otherwise you'll get fired AND sued for calumny
Jeremiah Green
not all companies are like that. some actually respect open source licenses. fyi.
Jacob Green
>. I suggested potentially having issues with the task >telling them about it You fucked up. You should've just done it and anonymously called Stallman on their ass.
Sebastian Butler
>I know a guy who's first job was ripping "Made in China" stickers off of tools and relabeling them "Made in USA." That's illegal in USA? Cause I don't think it is in Europe. Before I enrolled to uni I worked for a dutch company in Poland and we had various products with with stickers saying "Made in Poland" when they were actually manufactured in the Netherlands.
Caleb Jones
This happens all of the time.
Easton Peterson
Depends. If it explicitly says MADE IN USA but majority of it isn't made in USA, they can get in trouble.
That's why in our country you'll see a lot of "Assembled in USA" or "Designed in USA" or "Packaged in USA" to get around that.
No one gives a fuck. Code gets reverse-engineered all the time. That's how Compaq went from being a no-nothing to a computer powerhouse. Everything gets copied, it's just doing it the right way.
Back when I used to do PHP there were quite a few companies copying Invision Power Board code, especially when they went from 1.3 to 2.0 and decided to go with a new purchasing/licensing model. Change some functions, add some features, remove some other features (temporarily), etc.
I used to convert mods from IPB to some of these up and coming softwares and it was incredibly simple.
Brody Gray
I think he meant anonymously whistleblow. Preferably non-publicly too. Perhaps just to the guys that made the original software.
>not just calling your own modified, GPL'd version of the free program from the proprietary one to circumvent the GPL
Do you even jew? As long as they are packaged separately and not as a single program it's perfectly legal
Jose Nguyen
Leak the code online. People will think it was Russians.
Connor Brown
Do that.
Then come back and post results on Sup Forums.
Nathan Myers
just do it and stop being a beta white knight faggot
Lucas Hall
Tell them that would be against the law.
If they lay you off for it then you can take them to court for unfair dismissal.
Thomas Walker
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Jacob Price
You should advise them that there could be legal trouble- doing this is making the company liable to be sued. Legal trouble is a viable argument, but ethical issues are not. If they think that 'oh there's some risk in this' they'll be less gung ho for it.
Jaxson King
>its WRONG No it's not. There's no moral obligation to uphold the license of someone who's giving something away for free in perpetuity. They are literally giving up their property rights. Taking what nature provides and repackaging it for profit is just business 101.
Dylan Cooper
You're not funny.
Michael Wood
You're still going?
Josiah Gray
Licensing something with GPLv3 does not entail "giving something away" since the license forces derrivative work be also licensed under GPLv3. "You can use my work as long as your work is not proprietary".
There are "fuck-all" licenses and GPL is not one of them. There is reasoning behind Stallman's autism.
Adrian Bennett
>Licensing something with GPLv3 does not entail "giving something away It does as far as morality is concerned. Its attempt to enslave all that follow is what's immoral.
Austin Ortiz
The GPL literally stipulates that if you copy the code and repackaging it requires that the source code remain free. If you do so anyway you are legally liable.
Christian Garcia
This happens when you are detached from reality.
Landon Long
legal != moral One is not just morally allowed, one is morally obligated to break the GPL at any opportunity.
Parker Young
If the license doesn't allow you to remove features and pretend it's proprietary then it's not really free software is it? Watch autists sperg over that one
Austin Baker
Freedom != Anarchy Done
Matthew King
Fine, have it your way you ancap fuck. Go destroy some roads while you're at it. Better make the most out of your existance before my lawyers chase you into the woods where you'll continue your existence stealing beaver dams and using the water pressure to charge your jailbroken kindle so you can finish reading Steal This Book.
Jaxson Long
>MIT license
wow it's fucking nothing
Oliver Walker
The only thing being broken is the license, which frees it. The proper analogy would be:
>someone makes a road, declares it free, and decrees that anyone who makes a road linking to it must make theirs free as well
There is no moral obligation to uphold that. Also, as they cannot profit on the road, they no longer have any essential property rights regarding it. They've thrown it away and so now anyone may move in and claim it.
Luis Stewart
Free software means the freedom to do that kind of shit. Suck it up and take your money.
Benjamin Davis
>There's no moral obligation to uphold the license of someone who's giving something away for free in perpetuity. Luckily there is a legal obligation so we don't have to worry about this moral bullshit.
Ayden Price
>all these spooks >insisting people conform to a weird definition of property rights which conveniently happens to benefit you
i love how ancaps insist everyone else respect their property rights as sacred while constantly making up excuses to ignore others
like how they'd have nothing against a landowner charging rent as taxes and imposing laws on his residents but when a state tries to do it it's wrong because the state didn't take ownership according to the contrived definition they provide
it'll forever be a meme tier ideology
Ryan Ward
I don't believe the Supreme Court has upheld that.
The GPL does not cover anything that copyright was invented to protect. The GPL is the equivalent of taking out a garden hose, wetting your neighbor's lawn, spreading birdseed on it, and declaring it a wetlands essential for migratory birds in order to stop your neighbor from building. That's rather far from the original intent of the law even though a brain-dead judge may agree that it's a wet land with birds present so it technically applies.
The GPL does not protect an innovator's ability to capitalize on his invention, nor does it protect his right to not capitalize on it. All it does is prevent anyone else from doing so, which would be their natural liberty. Since the GPL leaves nothing that would need be personally protected, there's nothing to conflict with natural liberty. GPL'd software has been effectively abandoned and anyone may do with it as they please as it is the fairest of uses.
Elijah Gutierrez
I think it's more equivalent to this:
>check out this sweet png >you can do what you want with it >you do
Sebastian Gutierrez
That's absolutely wrong. The GPL is giving something away and saying you can do what you like with it, with the one condition that any changes you make must also have the same conditions. Pretty simple, but perhaps too much for you dummy.
Logan Thomas
GPL has as much legal power as any other user license.
Thomas Carter
>with the one condition That one condition is immoral. It is also not in keeping with the original purpose of the law it uses.
No. Copyright is long established by the Supreme Court. Copyleft is not.
Brandon Robinson
>you only own physical property if you're trying to make money from it
That's a fucking boneheaded half-assed thought that shows you haven't even begun to understand what you're talking about.
Benjamin Parker
If it is MIT, they can do whatever they want to, even change its license, as long as they retain somewhere info about its original author(s). This ain't no commie licensing like GPL.
Anthony Ross
how is the condition immoral given that it exists specifically to benefit users and allow the technology to be advanced
wouldn't locking things down, restricting progress until it benefits you be immoral
what do you even mean by moral
Christopher Reyes
>you can do what you like with it, with the one condition
>do what you like
>with one condition
>you're only free if you do exactly what we tell you
If you are not and will not be gaining anything of value from it, there is zero reason for the government to protect the concept of your ownership of it.
>how is the condition immoral given that it exists specifically to benefit users and allow the technology to be advanced
It violates my liberty without sufficient cause.
Anyone can copy. Not just anyone can create. Copyright exists to protect creators from those who would merely copy their work in order to protect and spur creativity. This is sufficient for the state to be justified in overriding my natural liberty to copy as I please. The GPL, however, insists that it be copyable. There is no longer a reason for copyright, thus the state has no cause to interfere with my natural liberty, and doing so is an immoral encroachment on my rights.
Angel Green
You can sue for anything.
Henry Cooper
Don't use it then faget. Enjoy windaids. :^)
William Morales
>If you are not and will not be gaining anything of value from it, there is zero reason for the government to protect the concept of your ownership of it. I gain nothing of tangible value from my PS4. If anything, I lose time and money on it. Guess that means you can steal it without governmental repercussions, huh?
You have no idea what property is.
Dylan Ramirez
>hey so user can you take this open source thing and remove these cool features and remove all branding so we can say its proprietary thank
Are you an OSX developer?
Blake Bell
you'll be able to use the software, and if others contribute, you can use their contributions how is that not gaining anything of value from it you're restricting yourself to an overly specific definition of gaining value
also why should protecting your liberty be moral where it harms others and holds advancement back you've said yourself that you're willing to let it be overridden when necessary, but you're insisting it's different in this case?
Isaac Bennett
>take this open source thing and remove these cool features and remove all branding so we can say its proprietary thanks is the program under GPL if so, i don't think you are allowed to do that.
Eli Mitchell
>I gain nothing of tangible value from my PS4. If anything Who said anything about it being limited to tangible?
You're not giving it away, are you? If you did, that would be evidence that you have no tangible or intangible benefits to continued ownership. The GPL gives software away with nothing but the shackles of a political philosophy attached. So the item itself is obviously of no value, and political philosophies must pass through the legislature to be made into law. So the GPL is empty.
Chase Morales
If it doesn't have a tangible value to you, others can claim that it has no value to you. The only alternative to your theory that "valueless" means "you don't own it," means its on the claimant to prove a negative, which is literally impossible, making your entire argument retarded.
Jack Perez
You are free to use, modify and redistribute the program You are not free to change the licence as you please. Same way you cannot take fucking Adobe Flash and release it under GPL (unless Adobe explicitly allows you so) GPL is as viable as any other licence, why would you be allowed to go against that one, but you have to respect other ones?
Christian Evans
Gaining something from the enslavement of others cannot be counted as you have no such right to do so.
Parker Gray
>get a real job shit normies say
Jonathan Gomez
>If it doesn't have a tangible value to you, others can claim that it has no value to you. Who cares? A claim is not a judgement.
Henry Johnson
it's not given away others are merely granted the rights to use, examine, modify, and redistribute it provided their respect your terms
it's not placed in the public domain
you don't have to use it if you disagree with the terms it's hardly enslavement they could have not made it available at all
Ian Green
> open source It's fine if it's BSD or used inside the company. Also you guys can sell it but provide the source code if it's GNU, nobody will bother to compile it.
Eli Morgan
>it's not given away >others are merely granted the rights to use, examine, modify, and redistribute it provided their respect your terms
The terms are not morally enforceable, thus it is given away.
>you don't have to use it if you disagree with the terms
My natural liberty came first. Copyright is merely a limited, temporary restriction for cause. Take away the cause and my natural liberty comes back in full force. You are claiming a natural right to licensing which does not exist.
Joseph Diaz
>morally enforceable >muh liberty
also different cause!=no cause
Jackson Perez
If you get caught, you'll take the blame. The company will fire you, releasing a statement on Facebook, "we are shocked by this behavior. We at company x do not condone this behavior and are always dedicated to serving our customers ethically". Meanwhile your name will be stained forever, and you'll never get a job again.
So ask yourself: how likely are you to get caught? Is it worth risking your career for a scumbag company who will only make you the bad guy? Lastly, is your name going to be attached to this code in any shape or form after the job is done? Because if the code is used 10 years from now and someone discovers that it was ripped, you'll still take the blame and you may be fired from the job you have at that time.
Hudson Perry
There is no cause that We the People have agreed deserves respect. We have in fact agreed it doesn't.
"I agree to place restrictions on my natural liberty to copy as creating a creator's right to profit from his work is beneficial" Freetard: "THIS MEANS YOU AGREE THAT COPYRIGHT IS EVIL AND THAT EVERYBODY SHOULD BE MADE TO GIVE AWAY COPIES BECAUSE I CAN MAKE COPYRIGHT SAY THAT WITH THE GPL!" I'm pretty sure I said just the opposite.
Aaron Evans
You are fucked either way. It may not come back to haunt you if you do it. But you are taking a risk. If you can get evidence to suggest they told you to do it then you are covered. If not then you either take the risk or tell them to fuck off. If they fire you take them to court (EFF or GNU may give support if you can provide evidence).
Log EVERYTHING!
Aaron Scott
TP-Link does this On my router manual there is a tiny note saying something along the lines of >portions of this product contain code licensed under the GPL and the source code is available under request. Contact for more information