From a pragmatic perspective: Berkeley Systems went through a long chain of acquisitions in the late 90s/early 2000s and eventually ended up under Vivendi, which hasn't done anything significant with the rights since a Flying Toasters themed J2ME game [1] in 2006. I doubt very much that they're going to do anything.
replyThis is pretty well trod legally. By the user taking a specific action, it makes the user responsible. Comma.ai uses the same technique. Technically their self driving hardware comes with no software. You have to click a button and point it at their GitHub to get the software on it, but it's automatic after that.
replyWe lost a Supreme Court case in 2005 on "inducement liability" (not a familiar copyright doctrine before that).
replyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Studios,_Inc._v._Grokster,....
I'm not sure if this doctrine has continued to be applied to anything else.
That's a good point. The other examples didn't involve copyright.
replyHopefully since it's so old, the copyright holders are cool about it.
ps. Hi Seth, good to see you around!
I forget, doesn't Audacity also have you do this, if you want to be able to export projects as MP3?
replyyes, although the I recently tried doing this on a cloud Ubuntu instance, and it refused to see the .so file
replywinamp did something similar, you actually had to whip the llamas ass yourself
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