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Except that all the people using left-pad weren't paying for left-pad, and didn't have a contractual relationship with the author. IANAL, but I'm doubtful the
by rwj 3y ago
Except that all the people using left-pad weren't paying for left-pad, and didn't have a contractual relationship with the author. IANAL, but I'm doubtful the courts would find there is enough of a relationship for the author to be liable.
- withinboredom 3y agoThat is what new laws are for.
- mjr00 3y agoNo, they aren't. Even in the most liberal interpretation of the new laws, there's nothing specifying that you need to continue making your open-source package continually and indefinitely available.
- withinboredom 3y agoI don't mean THESE new laws, just new laws in general. > nothing specifying that you need to continue making your open-source package continually and indefinitely available. There's a difference between making it available, and deliberately causing harm and untold productivity loss in a single day. This was a case of the latter.
- mjr00 3y agoSomeone deleted a publicly accessible file off the internet, and it broke workflows of people with whom they have no existing contract. Good luck proving that was done to deliberately cause harm.
- withinboredom 3y agoIn this case, they freely admitted to doing it with the intent to harm. A person slapping me in the face doesn’t have a contract with me, but they are still liable for that harm. This isn’t rocket science.