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I saw a guy on youtube complaining about it. He seemed to talk about FLOSS a lot and focus on the strict definition of "open source." I checked his github prof

I saw a guy on youtube complaining about it. He seemed to talk about FLOSS a lot and focus on the strict definition of "open source." I checked his github profile and he barely published anything. So here we have a company that made all of the code of a complete application source available being dunked by a guy who barely published any source code at all. Really put things in perspective for me.

fsflover 2y ago
The company broke a copyleft license though.
- AlienRobot 2y ago
  And if they didn't publish the code nobody would ever know about it, so what do you think the other companies will do?
  - fsflover 2y ago
    Not breaking laws, because it can be eventually revealed one way or another? I only half joking.
    - cookiengineer 2y ago
      Not joking: maybe we need tools to audit / disassemble binaries and match their symbols against known GPL libraries? Would help a lot, I think.
account42 2y ago
> I checked his github profile You do realize that GitHub is not the only place people can share code and that even on github not all contributions will be visible on your profile? Many notable open source developers don't even have a GitHub profile at all or just a dummy one to prevent others from claiming their commits because GitHub allows that without verifying email ownership.