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I know license allows it in the same way it allows users to harass burned out maintainers. Both are bad and we should have some ethical guidelines. A popular o
by YetAnotherNick 2y ago
I know license allows it in the same way it allows users to harass burned out maintainers. Both are bad and we should have some ethical guidelines.
A popular open source has lot of community contributions like blog post, answers in stack overflow, issue reporting, PRs etc. And if the maintainer changes the behaviour abruptly with no way for community to fix it, even if they are ready to pay for the development cost like terraform seems like abusing the open source ethos for their advantage.
- bruce511 2y agoOSS is a license. Ethics are not legal, so don't form part of a license. You are of course free to determine your own ethical standard and the use, or don't use, companies that apply that standard. >> abusing the open source You say "abusing" - they would say "using".