So basically main point of opposition boil down to:
1. "Don't use my project name to collect money for me!"
Why not use your project name? Did you trademarked it? If not, then it's just public information and you can't control how anyone chooses to use it.
No one is collecting money for you. The guy just collects money and promises to give it to you if you ask. Until you ask it's his money.
2. "Don't spam!"
Well, spamming is certainly in bad taste. I guess he just wanted to make sure people know that he will give them some money if they ask. Probably mistake on his part.
3. "There might be some laws against some of those things in some countries."
So? There are countries that have laws that say that being gay is illegal. Nobody cares about all the laws.
I think it illustrates that you should "do NOT as you would be done by" because you might have different tastes. Personally I'm all for free pennies and all possible schemes of bringing money to developers so they can do what they wan't instead of do what others tell them to do.
I just did. What a bizarre construct. Totally unenforceable. You'll get 'civil forfeiture'-d 50 times at random before IRS will charge you with that and wins. Besides it's not uncashed check. It's verbal (or even virtual) promise made by person in another country. If Nigerian prince offers you 500000$ you just need to claim do you have to pay taxes on that?
> I just did. What a bizarre construct. Totally unenforceable. Y
Oh, well thank god for that.
Whoever might have legal issues with this can just tell the relevant authorities in their country that scotty79 on HN says it's bizarre and totally unenforceable, and that'll shut them right up, won't it.
And, also, hey who gives a shit if the people involved in the various projects want their project associated with this. If there's no legal means to prevent it, then it's 100% ok because there's no such thing as just respecting the wishes of the people involved and being a decent person. After all, those people for put their code out there in public, so they have it coming and fuck them if they don't like it.
Can you seriously not see why people have a problem with this? And why it'd be good for the folks running the site to not automatically include whoever they please in their scheme, and to allow projects to remove themselves if asked?
> Whoever might have legal issues with this can just tell the relevant authorities in their country that scotty79 on HN says it's bizarre and totally unenforceable, and that'll shut them right up, won't it.
Yup. Btw that someone won't care because that will be the day when that someone will get struck by lightning three times, once after each meal, so he'll have much more to worry about.
1. "Don't use my project name to collect money for me!"
Why not use your project name? Did you trademarked it? If not, then it's just public information and you can't control how anyone chooses to use it.
No one is collecting money for you. The guy just collects money and promises to give it to you if you ask. Until you ask it's his money.
2. "Don't spam!"
Well, spamming is certainly in bad taste. I guess he just wanted to make sure people know that he will give them some money if they ask. Probably mistake on his part.
3. "There might be some laws against some of those things in some countries."
So? There are countries that have laws that say that being gay is illegal. Nobody cares about all the laws.
I think it illustrates that you should "do NOT as you would be done by" because you might have different tastes. Personally I'm all for free pennies and all possible schemes of bringing money to developers so they can do what they wan't instead of do what others tell them to do.