You can't just ignore the second part of that sentence which gives the right to make commits to all citizens of earth. That would include the person who wrote the last commit.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that should read "all other citizens of earth".

[–] MartianSands@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it means exactly what it says, but you lot are all misreading it.

I interpret it as "all rights, except the right to commit, are reserved" (which doesn't mean you surrender the right to commit, but rather that it's the only right you aren't depriving everyone else of)

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And I'm pretty sure that the name "hot potato license" and the comment above the license are very strong indicators for this not being the case. The license is meant to mimic a game of hot potato where you get the code for a short moment (one commit) and have to throw it to someone else. Sure, the analogy doesn't quite work because you can't decide who has to make the next commit but it would make even less sense if you were able to keep control over the code and add more and more commits. That would defeat the whole point of naming it "hot potato license".

[–] MartianSands@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

No it wouldn't. Whoever touched it last is responsible for it, that's entirely consistent with the metaphore

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

Are you doxing OOP right now??? How do you know they life on earth?

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Thats why I said it needs to be more rigorous. The license probably meant Everyone in the earth except the last person who commited to it