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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And I'm pretty sure that the name "hot potato license" and the comment above the license are very strong indicators for this not being the case. The license is meant to mimic a game of hot potato where you get the code for a short moment (one commit) and have to throw it to someone else. Sure, the analogy doesn't quite work because you can't decide who has to make the next commit but it would make even less sense if you were able to keep control over the code and add more and more commits. That would defeat the whole point of naming it "hot potato license".

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

No it wouldn't. Whoever touched it last is responsible for it, that's entirely consistent with the metaphore