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I'm sorry but I've not been following this. So Neo4j added additional restrictions to their "GPL" licence, those were removed by a project that redistributed i
by happymellon 2y ago
I'm sorry but I've not been following this.
So Neo4j added additional restrictions to their "GPL" licence, those were removed by a project that redistributed it.
FSF called out Neo4j and Neo4j just relicensed their entire project rather than make it properly GPL, but won't stop hassling the redistribution of the old version. Presumably to stop a GPL version of their older code being out there?
- acefaceZ 2y agoI think there is more to the story. Here is an interesting tidbit: The person Neo4j is fighting (Suhy) is the founder of ONgDB and DozerDB - the 2 biggest open source forks of Neo4j. (Possibly the only forks)
- happymellon 2y agoSo GPL'ed and then unhappy that there are forks? Madness.
- acefaceZ 2y agoSounds about right. I don’t think their investors were too happy with their ‘open source’ activities. Neo4j got to where they are on the backs of the open source community, which makes this situation that much more maddening.