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Btw, something strange with their license is that it means that no one else can contribute to the project except if there is a kind of cla. Let's suppose that

Btw, something strange with their license is that it means that no one else can contribute to the project except if there is a kind of cla. Let's suppose that I fork the FSL version and add some patches. They are interesting. Now Sentry would not be able to integrate these changes into their version because the "with us" regarding the competition would not be the same person. Same thing with contributions to the the apache 2 license code that can't make it inside the code of a later version that would be released as FSL. Also, I don't want that to happen, but a bad faith actor could probably also poison their code: - you look what would probably be needed for next development, a bug fix, a bug issue or change requested. You implement that in the best, obvious or multiple ways in your own fork. Then, they would not be able to use that in their code without infringement on your copyright and ie having not to compete with you.

the_mitsuhiko 3y ago
That is more a question about CLAs but licenses. The Python project for instance requires a CLA that gives the PSF the freedom to relicense more liberally than the current license. They would not accept or upstream code from a fork without that paperwork. The implications of not having a CLA for a spring license like the FSL are a bit unexplored. I have an idea in my head how that would play out but who knows.
mdaniel 3y ago
> Also, I don't want that to happen, but a bad faith actor could probably also poison their code I recognize this is a thought experiment, but my mental model of the legal system is that it's not "code is law," it's "the golden rule: he who has the gold, makes the rules." So, how I expect this would actually play out is that any such bad actor would do bad actor things, and then the changes would be implemented by someone with a sentry.io email in some nuanced way, we'd see a news article about some lawyering, and the bad actor would be impoverished by lawyer bills

the_mitsuhiko 3y ago

That is more a question about CLAs but licenses. The Python project for instance requires a CLA that gives the PSF the freedom to relicense more liberally than the current license. They would not accept or upstream code from a fork without that paperwork. The implications of not having a CLA for a spring license like the FSL are a bit unexplored. I have an idea in my head how that would play out but who knows.

mdaniel 3y ago

> Also, I don't want that to happen, but a bad faith actor could probably also poison their code I recognize this is a thought experiment, but my mental model of the legal system is that it's not "code is law," it's "the golden rule: he who has the gold, makes the rules." So, how I expect this would actually play out is that any such bad actor would do bad actor things, and then the changes would be implemented by someone with a sentry.io email in some nuanced way, we'd see a news article about some lawyering, and the bad actor would be impoverished by lawyer bills