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It disregards everyone who helped ImageSharp get to where it is today. Are the other code / issue contributors and evangelists getting paid for their efforts?
by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
It disregards everyone who helped ImageSharp get to where it is today. Are the other code / issue contributors and evangelists getting paid for their efforts?
The comment from Akka's relicense [1] applies just as well here:
"""
1) Project is open source
2) People use the project because it is open source
3) People contribute bug reports and fixes, creating value and improving the open source project because it is open source
4) People spread the word about the project, free marketing because it is open source
5) Maintainers decide to relicense, privatizing the value created by the community.
The "success" was a social phenomenon, not merely the efforts of the maintainers.
Relicensing is a betrayal of the community that was built around the software.
"""
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32755405 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32755405
- Dylan16807 4y ago> Are the other code / issue contributors and evangelists getting paid for their efforts? Nobody is getting paid for the pre-license-change version. Which remains open-source under the existing license forever.