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Comment by jen729w | Hacker News Reader

Readme:

  License
  MIT  
  Free Software, Hell Yeah!

Code (Keylogger.swift, lines 5 & 6):

  //  Created by Skrew Everything on 14/01/17.
  //  Copyright © 2017 Skrew Everything. All rights reserved.

Umm.

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Please articulate your concerns with this. Is it because it's copyrighted? I think most open source software is under copyright; but the license (MIT in this case) grants end-users certain rights that can be revoked if that license is broken.

Hey. Sorry, it appears that I am totally wrong. I just assumed that those statements were totally conflicting, but ten seconds on Google tells me that’s not so.

At least I learned something. My apologies.

Yeah usually open source software grants some permissions but retains copyright ownership. This somewhat disallows abuse of Open Source projects, and is probably part of what makes something like the GPL enforceable in court. IANAL

No, you're reserving all rights that a copyright indicates and then granting specific exceptions (i.e. "I won't enforce my copyright against you if you follow these rules") without giving up those rights

Correct, copyright is what enables the license, free software or otherwise.

Those comments are automatically inserted by Xcode into every file you create.

Probably the author just forgot to edit them to their liking.

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