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Maybe he shouldn’t have used the MIT licence if he didn’t understand what it meant. You can always hire a lawyer to explain it to you. Excuse my cynicism but t
by bzb5 6y ago
Maybe he shouldn’t have used the MIT licence if he didn’t understand what it meant. You can always hire a lawyer to explain it to you.
Excuse my cynicism but this story where someone starts a MIT or BSD licenced project so they can attract more contributors and then cry when someone makes money off the project is getting far too old.
- GordonS 6y agoThe situation is a little more nuanced than that - it's the way they are trying to make money from Zig that people find objectionable. In particular, what they are doing could damage the future of Zig and potentially splits the ecosystem. In addition, they have done some obviously scummy things like try to register a trademark on Zig in Japan.
- bzb5 6y agoA fork is literally a split of the ecosystem.