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I run locate and found both colors and faker on my laptop as dependencies of Postman. Color's license is MIT. Faker's is custom but basically MIT too. The main
by pmontra 5y ago
I run locate and found both colors and faker on my laptop as dependencies of Postman. Color's license is MIT. Faker's is custom but basically MIT too.
The maintainer has every right to change his mind and/or stop maintaining those packages at any time. However the outcome (Fortune 500 companies using his work for free) is consistent with the choice of the license. With insight that was a mistake to start with. Maybe a FOSS license plus a commercial one would have bought him money but maybe those packages wouldn't become as popular as they are now. Everybody should dual license for mutual protection.
Finally, breaking other FOSS projects and not only commercial ones is not the nicest way to complain against companies not paying him. Furthermore, honest question, did he ask them for those money?