Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by crooked-v 2661 days ago
> I would expect npm to have a legal structure in place under which code you upload for public use is also licensed for public use.

Not how it works. For example, see the license field here:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/unlicensed

1 comments

That would be the "terms under which they uploaded it"

NPM doesn't appear to have a "default license" though, so that would be "no license", therefore normal copyright law would seem to apply, and you can't make a copy of it, and more than you can copy a picture on a billboard or a blog post or whatever.