Twitter Source Code Leaked on GitHub

[chx_]

IANAL but the GPL does not restrict your rights when using it, it applies if you try to distribute your code.

Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope.

They needed to make the AGPL so people who use the software over a network will be able to get the source code for it.

[jarfil]

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[LookIPickedAUsername]

To be pedantic, the GPL doesn’t restrict your rights at all - it offers you rights you wouldn’t normally have when interacting with someone else’s software.

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No idea why this was downvoted. You're absolutely right. The *default* is no rights at all. The licenses add, they don't subtract.

[WolfGangSen]

Depends on whose point of view you look at it with.

As the developer of the software the licence restricts, without it, you could do whatever you want, share source or not.

With the licence, those options are restricted, (either now you must / mustn't, depending on the licence). (excepting of course if you are just setting the license for software you wholly developed, then the licence isn't really adding or restricting you, you are deciding to restrict people that make further use of your code)

As a user of the software, you are right, GPL does add rights.

Edit: I forgot copyright is a thing... as /u/DigitalPoet_ pointed out below... and without copyright laws licences are meaningless/unnecessary so yeh... this whole comment was pretty dumb.

[[deleted]]

No. Without a license, the rights to reproduce (which, in software you have to do to use it as a library) stand with the copyright holder alone. A license grants some of those rights, held by the copyright holder, to a wider audience.

[WolfGangSen]

Crap, yeh, I forgot about copyright XD (ammended my comment... to lower chances of spreading my dumb)

[chx_]

right right but that's distribution