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The author blogged about it in 2009 [1] TL;DR They used a MIT licence and other people were selling broken, rebranded cashgrab copies without changing things l
by angus-prune 5y ago
The author blogged about it in 2009 [1]
TL;DR They used a MIT licence and other people were selling broken, rebranded cashgrab copies without changing things like the installer or crash logs being sent to the author etc
[1] https://blog.getpaint.net/2009/11/06/a-new-license-for-paintnet-v35/ https://blog.getpaint.net/2009/11/06/a-new-license-for-paint...
- beerandt 5y agoSo why isn't this a problem for other open source software? Or is it? Is it only because of the high demand for a cheaper/free Photoshop alternative?
- david_allison 5y agoIt is. It's more than frustrating to have crash logs that don't refer to your code and contain access tokens or similar data because the author of the 'rebranded' software doesn't care about user privacy.