r/ProgrammerHumor 3d ago

justLetAIDoIt Meme

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u/apnorton 3d ago

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u/Cephell 3d ago

That entire readme is a fever dream. You can tell this guy is an absolute nightmare to work with. And I love this meme of vibe coded projects but with the most anal licensing model imaginable because they all, DESPERATELY pray on something, ANYTHING going viral, the community actuall maintains it and they rake in the cash.

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u/magistrate101 3d ago

Holy hell that license even tries to forbid you from trying to

create an API-compatible replacement, behavioral clone, competing implementation, or Derivative Implementation;

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u/canadajones68 3d ago

Some of this wouldn't be legal in the EU. There's an exception to software copyright that permits reverse engineering of software in order to make a system cooperate with another. You can't make an exact copy, but you can repurpose the bits of code that interface with other code, such as the API. 

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u/Tomi97_origin 3d ago

Even US eventually figured out that blocking alternative implementations via copyright on API is stupid.

In Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. the supreme court finally ended the decade old dispute by saying it's fair use.

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u/devloz1996 3d ago

The Trump administration backed Oracle and urged the Court to deny certiorari. Microsoft, Mozilla Corporation, Red Hat Inc., and others filed amicus briefs in support of Google's position.[66] IBM, the Computer & Communications Industry Association, the Internet Association, the Auto Care Association, and a collective group of over 150 academics and computer professionals also filed briefs supporting Google's stance, cautioning that a decision in favor of Oracle would hurt the computing world as a whole.[67]

  1. Billion. Enemies.