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Hot Potato License (jlai.lu)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Just writing words doesn't make it legally binding. Anyone who reads this comment owes me $1,000,000 USD.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Oh shit, what's your PayPal?

Anyone who reads this comment owes me $1,000,000 USD and a kiss

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't have 2 mil, how do I get out of this? File for bankruptcy?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

on a technicality, debts like this are not legally dischargable through bankruptcy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah, the student loan loophole

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I don't have the money, can I kiss you twice instead?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

If anyone I owe money to reads this, the debt is reversed.

I'll take the kiss though

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ofcourse its legally binding. If you include a license text with your own code on a platform that doesnt have a clause to license your code under different terms, then that license is legally valid.

But writing the license yourself without making sure that it doesnt allow for any legal loopholes is a bad idea.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

You declaring a debt isn't meaningful because you don't have legal authority to do so.

A licence statement is describing in what way you're granting permission for something you do have the right to control, which makes it meaningful

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

What the fuck are you talking about? Do you think the license being used is not legally binding? What constitutes as legally binding to you?