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I understand your frustration, but your Github app is MIT licensed. You can't ban them from using the code on their own servers (although if they're using a hos
by danShumway 6y ago
I understand your frustration, but your Github app is MIT licensed. You can't ban them from using the code on their own servers (although if they're using a hosted version on your servers, sure you could ban them from that).
You could re-license a future version as proprietary and ban them from using that.
But personally, I feel like it's a tiny bit dangerous to even joke about adding moral clauses to Open Source licenses.
- dessant 6y agoGitHub apps are hosted services, and I maintain a public instance on a server. I obviously wouldn't ban them, but it is in my right, and this has nothing to do with the license of the project. I've meant to illustrate how abusive their attitude is towards their users by drawing a comparison and putting them in their customer's shoes. Although for their users it's even worse, because they appear to be booting paying customers that have an expectation of service continuity, not users of a free service.