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The folks at https://malus.sh https://malus.sh seem to think it's fine.
by pavel_lishin 8mo ago
The folks at https://malus.sh https://malus.sh seem to think it's fine.
- angiolillo 8mo agoThat's amazing! But are you sure that the page is not satire? > Tired of putting "Portions of this software..." in your documentation? Those maintainers worked for free—why should they get credit? ... Some licenses require you to contribute improvements back. Your shareholders didn't invest in your company so you could help strangers. And the testimonials from "Definitely Real Corp", "MegaSoft Industries" and "Profit First LLC" are a bit suspicious, as is the fact that most of the links in the footer are not real.
- pavel_lishin 8mo agoDamnit. Poe's law strikes again.
- angiolillo 8mo agoWell, if the chardet relicensing stands then something like this will eventually be real, though perhaps not so publicly shameless. (The page is still a fantastic find though.)
- pabs3 8mo agoThat is satire, here is a talk: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_source_together_with_this_one_simple_trick/ https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_...
- nickvidal 8mo agoBONUS: Liberate Proprietary Source https://nickvidal.github.io/bonus/ https://nickvidal.github.io/bonus/