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> One of the founding principles of open source is that you can take a copy of someone's work and make changes to it (as long as you continue to make the change
by hk__2 11y ago
> One of the founding principles of open source is that you can take a copy of someone's work and make changes to it (as long as you continue to make the changes public)
Also as long as you acknowledge it. It’s acceptable to copy a FOSS project and make a new one on top of it but you have to mention it; you can’t just create a copycat and claim you invented everything by yourself, especially if you start making money off it (well some licences let you do that but that’s not ethical).
- hobarrera 11y agoThe guys at GitLab are usually quite open about this sort of thing (having copied this and that, etc). I don't think they've ever claimed to have invented anything they have not.
- sytse 11y agoWe indeed try to be open about it. Let us know if we should improve the attribution somewhere, in this thread we already made a fix in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11432400 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11432400