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You are right. Part of the magic that drives FOSS is that everyone is willingly contributing. If a developer no longer wants to do that, they should be able to
by Nyra 5y ago
You are right. Part of the magic that drives FOSS is that everyone is willingly contributing. If a developer no longer wants to do that, they should be able to make that decision, not npm. That’s without mentioning that the fallout was a direct result of their poor decision-making up that point anyway. npm should have just laughed at kik for coming to them about an unrelated, unmalicious package like this.
- ivanhoe 5y agoIf you don't want to contribute anymore you don't have to, just go and do something else - but once the code was published it's not just "yours" anymore, it belongs to the community, that's the whole idea behind OSS. You give it away to everyone and anyone to use it and fork it and un-unpublish it as much as they like...
- RalfWausE 5y agoThis is (in my opinion) the problem with (most? all?) OSS licence models: What if your software or parts of your software are used against your will or intention? What if your software or parts thereof is taken by the "Big Tech", commercialized and you think this is a total perversion of the intention you had while writing this software? The more i think about the possibilities the less i like the idea...
- amne 5y agowhen you "contribute" bricks to a house you don't get to come back later to reclaim "your" bricks