german corona app source code - extra lulzy

[bad_brain]

it's always hard to find something more cringe-worthy than software developed by the german authorities, just take the 90's style trojan they developed to "fight terrorism" where the targets would had to manually exec an email attachement...

here is the latest coup: the 'rona app. after loads of criticism they released the source code, and it caused a wave of laughter because here's what they did:
- take open source modules
- remove all comments from the code including the original author
- keep it under BSD license posing as original author
- trying to obfuscate the code by editing whitespaces so original developers don't find it
- adding custom license notices like:
- you're not allowed to analyze the code if you're "commercial"
- it's not allowed to "translate" the code, which includes compiling it

https://gitlab.com/lucaapp/android/-/tr ... b620435fc/

P.S. here's the (german) post/twitter thread of the guys over at zerforschung who made stolen code issue public:
https://zerforschung.org/posts/luca-2/

[computathug]

The classic example of being above the law. Do as we say not as we do!