• drone621
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    3 years ago

    Honestly, good for him. Yeah, I’m sure it was an inconvenience for a lot of people that didn’t necessarily do anything wrong, but it’s funny how it’s an open source “community” when people are profiting off your free labor without even thinking about where libraries came from, but when you need some support and withdraw that gift you’re the enemy.

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      3 years ago

      I genuinely laugh at online “communities” for that very reason.

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      3 years ago

      If you don’t like it when “people are profiting off your free labor without even thinking about where libraries came from”, don’t use free licences…

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        3 years ago

        Sure, but just because you’ve open-sourced something at some point, doesn’t mean you have to maintain it for free forever. If we require that level of commitment, no one is ever going to open-source anything.

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          3 years ago

          Then why not relicense it at that point?

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          3 years ago

          The responsible thing would be to walk away and let others fork and maintain it.