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CeeBee@lemmy.world 6 months agosteal code from non-opensource projects, ignore licenses and do other shit like that
That’s a lot of incorrect assumptions there.
They didn’t steal any code. They didn’t ignore licenses either. In fact, the only reason they had a judgment ruled against them is because they were taking monetary donations. Which was interpreted as “profiting”.
They reverse engineered a process without stealing anything. They didn’t even circumvent DRM, which is actually protected by law on the grounds of creating personal backups and data/software preservation.
You’re either very ignorant on the subject or you just ate up Nintendo’s BS.
Maalus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I was talking hypothetically. Are they allowed to do that? If not, then they cannot be noncompliant with GDPR, simple as.
CeeBee@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Actually yes. The people that run afoul of the GDPR are the people who run the instance servers. The code writers are not the ones legally responsible.
Maalus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, theu are just as legally responsible as admins of instances.
CeeBee@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s going to vary heavily based on regional laws. You cannot make such a blanket statement like that.