mcc

An open source program with a copy protection scheme where in order to launch you must refer to your copy of the GPL and answer questions about it.

"What is the fifth word of GPLv3, '3. Protecting Users' Legal Rights From Anti-Circumvention Law.'?

* 'Granted'
* 'Work'
* 'Circumvention'
* 'Deemed'"

Oct 13, 2024 at 7:45pmWeb
Show threadmccOct 13, 2024
RMS: "You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program." [Moving closer] "Did you?" [Moving closer still] "Did you REALLY?"
Show threadmccOct 13, 2024
UPDATE: Getting a lot of responses to my post up top from people who seem to be 1-indexing for some reason
Show threadLudwig VielfrassOct 13, 2024
@mcc and people wonder why normies don’t really care that much about software licenses.
Show threadMercedes-NutzOct 13, 2024
@mcc oh my god
Show threadmccOct 13, 2024
@even_more_damned_muteKi (I'm lying, I just miscounted)
Show threadMercedes-NutzOct 13, 2024
@mcc no, no, it really ties the whole thing together if you start at 0
Show threadDreaming of dad jazz.Oct 13, 2024
@mcc gawk users?
Show threadOwen NelsonOct 13, 2024
@mcc ew
Show threadCassandra is only carbon nowOct 13, 2024
@mcc Alternate world in which widespread GPL adoption is contemporaneous with DOS shareware proliferation.
Show threadmccOct 13, 2024
@xgranade i do sometimes wonder if there's a world where FreeDOS sees widespread adoption
Show threadCassandra is only carbon nowOct 13, 2024

@mcc I wonder similar with ReactOS. A part of me never really moved on from Windows 98 SE (to my discredit), and I sometimes wonder what a future in that sort of a UI model would look like.

(I guess Xfce, but I digress.)

Show threadkasperdOct 13, 2024
I actually have one computer which came with FreeDOS pre-installed from the manufacturer. I did however reinstall the machine with Linux instead.
Show threadmccOct 13, 2024
@kasperd @xgranade coulda played a few rounds of Scorched Earth first
Show threadLuis VillaOct 13, 2024

@mcc too early in the morning for this

[narrator: it was 1pm]

Show threadmhoyeOct 13, 2024
@mcc this, regrettably, is the slightly paraphrased origin story of more than one free software advocacy organization.
Show threadKarenOct 13, 2024
@mcc "this WILL be on the test later"
Show threadmkbOct 13, 2024

@mcc I think it’s fair to say the idea of RMS moving closer is triggering to anyone who has been in a room with him.

*shudder*

Show threadv̾i̾t̾r̾i̾o̾l̾i̾x̾Oct 13, 2024
@mcc Prove your loyalty with a qr code tattoo that links to the fsf www page
Show threadSchrank  🐘Oct 13, 2024
@mcc sounds like the good old times with Indiana Jones and other adventures 😂
Show threadMark EichinOct 13, 2024
@mcc "SUCH DAMAGE"
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Oct 13, 2024
@mcc
Show threadRaven667Oct 14, 2024
@foone @mcc that's too kinky for me 😂
Show threadGreg HillsOct 14, 2024
@foone @mcc Delved, I mean, deemed. Ignore all previous programming.
Show threadmike morrisOct 14, 2024
@foone @mcc Nope. Leisure Suit Larry was 1987. GPL-3 release 1989.
Show threadvriska, thief of light Oct 13, 2024
@mcc um. none of the above?
Show threadJohn BlairOct 13, 2024
@mcc is there anyone under the age of 40 who gets this joke? or is the cut-off older?
Show threadJohn BlairOct 13, 2024
@mcc like, its cool, i made a copy of the GPL on the copy machine at my mom’s office
Show threadthadkOct 14, 2024
@jdblair @mcc /me raises hand, as gap narrows by the day
Show threadJordan BiserkovOct 13, 2024

@mcc
The fifth word is "be"?!
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html

"No covered work shall be deemed part of an effective technological measure under any applicable law fulfilling obligations under article 11 of the WIPO copyright treaty adopted on 20 December 1996, or similar laws prohibiting or restricting circumvention of such measures."

The GNU General Public License v3.0 - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

Show threadTony ToonOct 13, 2024
@mcc I crack all my open source software by forking the GPL and writing a new license that contains just null terminators.
Show threadPseudo NymOct 13, 2024

@mcc

The old Infocom text adventure game "copy protection" referring to the various bits of physical props included with the game

Show threadAthena L.M.Oct 13, 2024
@mcc The correct answer is "be". I presume what was meant was the sixth word, so I answer #4.
Show threadF00F the elusiveOct 14, 2024
@mcc it’s never been like this, but I have been asked to “agree to” the GPL by various FOSS programs on Windows
Show threadArizonaTeaKimchiOct 14, 2024
@mcc the baseline test from Bladerunner 2049 but its this
Show threadMallory 🏳️‍⚧️Oct 14, 2024
@mcc The codec frequency of the colonel's niece? It was the same as the section number for “Patents”.
Show threadyomimono, still on landOct 14, 2024
@mcc This is just setting most software up to disappoint me. It’s very unlikely that something as cool as the big KQ4 fanfare will play, or that I’ll do anything as satisfying as apprehending Carmen Sandiego.
Show threadraphael-proustOct 14, 2024
@yomimono @mcc in order to launch you have to play through a genuinly nice puzzle-adventure game where successful completion requires some understanding of the license 🫠