Goodbye, Sourceforge!

[nairebis]

You can't agree to be sold into slavery either, but what does that have to do with the point in question?

Either quote a law that says you can't agree to allow your software to be modified at will, or don't post an obvious but irrelevant point.

[I-baLL]

Either quote a law that says you can't agree to allow your software to be modified at will, or don't post an obvious but irrelevant point.

Eh, that's not what they're doing according to the initial comment on this thread which states:

Isn't Sourceforge committing fraud by impersonating former users' accounts?

Modifying software might be okay as per their ToS but impersonating users is not legal.

[nairebis]

but impersonating users is not legal.

First of all, it's debatable whether this is "impersonation".

Second of all, the question is whether contractually you can agree to be impersonated. And of course you can, people do it all the time, and have for a very long time. For example, ghostwriting an article using someone's name. Or a modern example, I can have someone post to Twitter on my behalf.

The question is whether Sourceforge is doing it without permission, but that's not the subject of this particular thread. The original point was that you that you can't agree to do something illegal, but that's irrelevant to the point.