Comment on Unity Silently Deletes GitHub Repo that Tracks Terms of Service Changes and Updated Its License - GamerBraves

Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Say NO to centralized source management platforms

  True, maybe, but in this case entirely pointless. If Unity didn’t host on git, they would’ve hosted it on their own solution. They would’ve been able to delete the repo just the same. Furthermore, if they hosted the solution on their own, it would’ve made it harder for others to mirror the repo. At least harder as git makes it.

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  • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fair enough… archive.is and other solutions then to capture their pages before/after changes.

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• sfgifz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  github giveth, and github can (and does)

  To be fair, this is a feature not a bug. The original creator is the one who taketh away.

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  • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    True, generally. Unless DMCA notices force github to taketh away for them… :) youtube-dl and others found out.

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• Qvest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Say no to centralized platforms altogether. I don’t want to be that person, but things like these are exactly why open-source is (and should be) superior. It’s unfortunate that OSS has had so little traction in the end-user side of things

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  • AdmiralShat@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s changing, imo. For years, closed source software built by companies was just superior in I’d say 80% of cases (Image editing, DAWs, 3D graphics (remember, blender may be getting up their in age, but it only recently hit parity with other major softwares)

    I feel like now I’m using more open source software than not, not out of a personal belief, but because it’s actually better now than some of the closed source alternatives (price is not an issue with me, I’m gonna pirate whatever I want to use anyway)

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• elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s the point of having an outdated copy of the ToS? Unity did this just so that it’s not so easy to see future changes.

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  • Raxiel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Users are bound by the version of the terms they agree with when they start using the product. There may be a term that says ongoing usage when the terms change constitutes acceptance of a change.
    Unity are trying to say they can make the change retroactively, but the 2022 (and prior) terms apparently included a clause saying that if future changes were detrimental to the user they could stay on old versions of the software and remain bound by the old terms. That’s one angle Devs could use to tell them to get fucked There may be others.

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    • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ooooh, I understand now! That’s fucked up, and that’s so dumb of them.

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My question is how much support does Unity provide or need to provide to the old versions, or I guess any version. Will they still be usable a few years down the road?

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• p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mirror a git repo? Do you understand how git works? You clone the repo, and it’s effectively mirrored already, especially for something that doesn’t change much.

  If you want the commits updated, then put git pull in a daily cronjob. Boom! Mirror.

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  • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    True, every git pull is a ‘mirror’. Bad phrasing on my part. I was thinking more of when I set up my local gogs instance to mirror an outside/upstream git (such as from github), which really just pulls again every time upstream changes.

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