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But OSI-compatible FOSS licenses include pushover ones like MIT, so even though you couldn't steal all of the contributions to make a proprietary fork, any othe
by josephcsible 11mo ago
But OSI-compatible FOSS licenses include pushover ones like MIT, so even though you couldn't steal all of the contributions to make a proprietary fork, any other company then could.
- ruined 11mo agowell, their new app mentioned in the post is GPL. but in the rest of the ecosystem a bunch of the inherited code is already Apache or MIT. so, i presume you have already forked the other repos to relicense them. can you drop a link?
- weinzierl 11mo agoThe CLA very well allows them to use all of the contributions to make a proprietary fork. The license is irrelevant for that[1]. Calling it "stealing" doesn't help. [1] I'd usually call it a distraction, a sleigh of hand, smoke and mirrors, but we have to give Eric credit for not burying the CLA.