Tripredacus Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 It has nothing to do with what we think, rather the governments for the countries our users and the website is in. I was not around when rule 1 came into being, so I cannot say whether is was just decided on or if it came into being due to a reaction for something. The redistribution portion certainly did come in as a reaction to something. Xper decided it is better to just not allow unauthorized redistribution rather than having to constantly deal with other companies' legal departments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asdf2345 Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 36 minutes ago, Tripredacus said: It has nothing to do with what we think, rather the governments for the countries our users and the website is in. I was not around when rule 1 came into being, so I cannot say whether is was just decided on or if it came into being due to a reaction for something. The redistribution portion certainly did come in as a reaction to something. Xper decided it is better to just not allow unauthorized redistribution rather than having to constantly deal with other companies' legal departments. Think I'll do what OP did, and just make the ISO be off the site, but accessible through a hyperlink on the site I post here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 22 hours ago, asdf2345 said: but accessible through a hyperlink on the site I post here That wouldn't be a good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MintChocAero Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 (edited) The first half of this thread is toxic as hell, wtf. As for the whole piracy thing, typically - redistribution or usage of a product you don't hold rights/proper licence of to redistribute = illegal in most aspects. Same goes for FOSS too, depending on the licence (like the GPL, think the XCP rootkit scandal which illegally reused GPL'd code). I'm not a legal expert but this is roughly what I make of it on both the free, FOSS/OSS and commercial side of things. Edited October 4, 2020 by MintChocAero Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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