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How was the approval given for that license to be used? Did the company sign it over and then retroactively renege? Did they just notice that a core developer w

How was the approval given for that license to be used? Did the company sign it over and then retroactively renege? Did they just notice that a core developer was their employee at an overlapping time?

marcinzm 5y ago
Huh? The company made their code open source under a permissive license. A developer working there then built their own package inspired by that code on their own time. I'm not sure where ethically the issue is here. Many things are legal but not ethical. So while they may legally be able to compel him that doesn't mean their action isn't unethical and petty. Companies that do unethical and petty things tend to be horrible places to work eventually.
- vmception 5y ago
  I think you jumped the gun trying to predict how this conversation would go I am asking exclusively about the legal circumstance And also stop acting confused at every response, this is a normal conversation where someone asks about the context and the other person replies with the answer, I skimmed the tweet thread but the background isn't familiar to me and thats what the point of the conversation is You are too tuned to expecting an adversarial comment to defend, when thats not the case at all
  - marcinzm 5y ago
    Your first response made multiple strong claims and tried to state what my stance was with an explicit example. If you didn't know the context then you shouldn't have started with strong claims you didn't know the truth of. In addition, my original post made no claim of the legality of this situation and neither did you make any claims until this post. I merely claimed that this was a petty thing to do. Trying to twist out of statements you made yourself and trying to play the victim when not winning an argument doesn't make for a useful conversation.
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    - vmception 5y ago
      Ok, right bumble doesn’t have to do this Is there any ambiguity in the case?

marcinzm 5y ago

Huh? The company made their code open source under a permissive license. A developer working there then built their own package inspired by that code on their own time. I'm not sure where ethically the issue is here. Many things are legal but not ethical. So while they may legally be able to compel him that doesn't mean their action isn't unethical and petty. Companies that do unethical and petty things tend to be horrible places to work eventually.

vmception 5y ago
I think you jumped the gun trying to predict how this conversation would go I am asking exclusively about the legal circumstance And also stop acting confused at every response, this is a normal conversation where someone asks about the context and the other person replies with the answer, I skimmed the tweet thread but the background isn't familiar to me and thats what the point of the conversation is You are too tuned to expecting an adversarial comment to defend, when thats not the case at all
- marcinzm 5y ago
  Your first response made multiple strong claims and tried to state what my stance was with an explicit example. If you didn't know the context then you shouldn't have started with strong claims you didn't know the truth of. In addition, my original post made no claim of the legality of this situation and neither did you make any claims until this post. I merely claimed that this was a petty thing to do. Trying to twist out of statements you made yourself and trying to play the victim when not winning an argument doesn't make for a useful conversation.
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  - vmception 5y ago
    Ok, right bumble doesn’t have to do this Is there any ambiguity in the case?