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Synopsys bought security scanner Brakeman and removed its open source license
- dwheeler 8y agoI was surprised by this license change. I'm thinking about establishing a fork that's open source software (OSS). It would almost certainly need to change its name, since I imagine Synopsys has trademarks on the original name.
- dankohn1 8y agoIt was formerly under an MIT license and Synopsys bought them and changed it to CC-NC-BY, meaning only allowed for non-commercial usage, and so explicitly not an open source license. Also note that Creative Commons recommends against using their licenses for code: https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-software https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm... Brakeman is an extremely capable and important security scanner for Ruby on Rails.