Users of popular open-source libraries 'colors' and 'faker' were left stunned after they saw their applications, using these libraries, printing gibberish data and breaking. Some surmised if the NPM libraries had been compromised, but it turns out there's more to the story.
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.
I genuinely laugh at online “communities” for that very reason.
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…
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.
Then why not relicense it at that point?
The responsible thing would be to walk away and let others fork and maintain it.
Which is what they did?!