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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

FUCK companies that take an open source product that people spent their private time building and make it closed source for themselves

This is theft, plain and simple

Yes,the project needs GPL instead of those LGPL type licenses that permit that crap, but that doesn't change what these companies do

So can we take the code from up to about a mo the ago, and just make it GPL and tell them to fuck off?

[-] ken@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Unnecessary hostility. They can not and are not retroactively changing license on past contributions. The only thing affected is upstream future contributions. If nothing was lost, how can it be "theft"?

So can we take the code from up to about a mo the ago

Yes. As long as you also comply with license.

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 1 points 4 months ago

Its not theft but it is bait and switch

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