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.
  • Thann
    43·
    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…

    • Ephera
      5·
      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.

      • fosk
        2·
        3 years ago

        Then why not relicense it at that point?

      • Thann
        11·
        3 years ago

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