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> It's clear we need a license that allows software to be developed in the open but prevents this type abuse. The ability to fork is the point of open source,
by sangnoir 7y ago
> It's clear we need a license that allows software to be developed in the open but prevents this type abuse.
The ability to fork is the point of open source, because it assures continuity. The price of this is the non-zero probability of hostile forks (which I would not classify as 'abuse'). I think there's a section of technologist who license their software for pragmatic (traction, fixing bugs) and not ideological reasons and get surprised when someone forks the project in a way they don't like.
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- simplyinfinity 7y agoYou can fork it, you can mod it. But you cannot sell forked sentry as a service to companies. If companies want sentry they can host it themselves and you can provide customization/support services for that.
- Spivak 7y ago> But you cannot sell forked sentry as a service to companies? But why not? That seems like such an arbitrary distinction if it weren't for the fact that the company is trying to profit on being the exclusive hosted provider of the software. Why wouldn't I want to pay a company that's better at ops to host sentry for me?
- SparkyMcUnicorn 7y agoBetter at ops? do they have issues? The options are: Use Sentry.io, host it yourself, or use something else.
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- ryan_lane 7y agoIt's possible to fork all of the repos until the first change is introduced with the new license. So, if you want to fork at any point in time, it's going to be based on the last release prior to the new license.