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Those are different issues entirely. Right now, a party that is independent of the original developers has attempted to charge money for the work. There's no
by TAForObvReasons 8y ago
Those are different issues entirely.
Right now, a party that is independent of the original developers has attempted to charge money for the work. There's no indication that the original authors consented to this, and there's no assurance besides some platitudes in a blog post that the authors will receive any part of the payment
- FooBarWidget 8y agoBut the seller does not need consent from the original authors! That is the whole point of open source licenses and of my comment! Amazon did not have to ask for consent to make money off Redis or Linux or anything else, but that is exactly why Redis Labs was not happy. See also https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html
- woodruffw 8y agoYou're responding to the legality of this store, which I addressed in the original comment. Everybody is on-board with the idea that selling other peoples' open source work is legal, and there's no particular problem with that. The ethical problem, here in particular, is presenting yourself as an official storefront for the open source community. I don't care if Amazon integrates my projects into their infrastructure (they probably already do!) -- they don't present themselves as my financial middleman.