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In fact my point is : I don't find a citation of the mail stating they refused to pay. What I understand of the twitter feed is : - someone sent a (probably ma

by GaelFG 4y ago

In fact my point is : I don't find a citation of the mail stating they refused to pay. What I understand of the twitter feed is : - someone sent a (probably mass vendor targeted) mail asking for a form filling. - The author interpreted they wanted it for free (which is not even absurd : some open source project have commercial licences and could use both a whatever security standard compliance to gain commercial value AND the legit right to add a big company name on his website) and was outraged because the email didn't contain a commercial offer. I may be wrong, but IF the mail was really targeted at him (other comment point a believable theory : the security guy mass sent the mail to every 'vendor' lib in the folder, either by mistake or lack of caring) he just panicked and (if he wanted money) missed a business opportunity by either sending a quote for the form filing, trying to negociate an enterprise grade support/consulting or just politely responded "I'm an open source free code provider and have no financial interst in being used by you. Have a nice day." I have been requested heavy paperwork kiling to allow my work as freelance to be used with 'big client', sended bills for it, and never had a problem with it. Never the funniest part of the project, but money is money.

geerlingguy 4y ago
I just didn't respond. I don't particularly like Epic Games anyways, and it's honestly not worth my time, since they'll likely end up using my role or forking it anyways. I mean, that's why I slapped the MIT license on it! I get around 50 unsolicited emails a day, many asking for help with my OSS projects, but rarely is there something as cookie-cutter as this that's not outright spam. I wasn't outraged, more like bemused that they'd think an OSS maintainer for a small personal project would care to spend hours working on security documentation for a little project that's like 1 KB of code.
- GaelFG 4y ago
  I'm glad for you to hear it was a "rational" response and you were really not interested. The fact the project was 1KB of code was also unknown of me be reading the tweets, and explain furthermore the reaction :)

by GaelFG 4y ago

geerlingguy 4y ago

I just didn't respond. I don't particularly like Epic Games anyways, and it's honestly not worth my time, since they'll likely end up using my role or forking it anyways. I mean, that's why I slapped the MIT license on it! I get around 50 unsolicited emails a day, many asking for help with my OSS projects, but rarely is there something as cookie-cutter as this that's not outright spam. I wasn't outraged, more like bemused that they'd think an OSS maintainer for a small personal project would care to spend hours working on security documentation for a little project that's like 1 KB of code.

GaelFG 4y ago
I'm glad for you to hear it was a "rational" response and you were really not interested. The fact the project was 1KB of code was also unknown of me be reading the tweets, and explain furthermore the reaction :)