And who hasn’t contributed any code to this particular repo (according to github insights).
The biggest issue is that there isn’t a universal agreement on what causes harm. There is agreement on the basics - murder, violence, etc - but they’re already illegal anyways, no need to ban them by license.
I like the idea, but I really hate that they’ve hardcoded the provider.
I see there an access violation…
Because it’s not a very easy case. In fact, there is no real case.
Because judges are people, not robots mindlessly applying legislation. To succeed in such case you need the judges on the trial and all appeals to all decide to maliciously comply with the law.
You obviously consented that your data can be shared with all Lemmy/Fediverse instances federated with yours, and they can distribute it to Lemmy/Fediverse users - because that’s the basic premise of Lemmy.
Now, I can host a Lemmy instances of my own and get all your posts that way. No need to bother buying them.
That said, you can use a third party service only for sending, but receive mail on your self-hosted server.
Technically, “enforced pay it forward” is called credit. Your debt would then be “the amount you still have to pay forward”.
Of course, this defeats both the spirit and the purpose of a pay it forward scheme.