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Honestly, it sounds like they might have been willing to purchase a license from you to redistribute the code. Had you reached out, you may have received a few
by mywittyname 5y ago
Honestly, it sounds like they might have been willing to purchase a license from you to redistribute the code. Had you reached out, you may have received a few bucks and proper attribution for your work (and your work would have reached a broader audience).
- satysin 5y agoPossibly. Of course they could have contacted me first rather than modifying my program to pass it off as theirs. I mean it was GPL2 so they could have just used it as is. Of course this was the early 2000s where many people saw "open source" and felt like it meant they could just do whatever they want. I bet they never entertained the idea I would ever find out let alone be sitting in a sales pitch :)