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This is probably not the place for me to go off on tangent, but why are you getting upset? Do you think he can finish this project on elance for $500 dollar? Ho
by potatosareok 12y ago
This is probably not the place for me to go off on tangent, but why are you getting upset? Do you think he can finish this project on elance for $500 dollar? How is this going to affect you?
He is scummy guy. Ok. Agreed. But like eru said, you make your code available under MIT license. You can't have it both way of putting your code under a license like that and then complaining when someone uses it in a way you don't like. It seems very hypocritical to me to be angry if he is using your license properly. If I put $100 dollar out to charity and they don't use it in a way I see fit, that is my fault, not theirs.
Worst case scenario he makes someone to finish the app and makes a lot of money off it. And then you have a right to be angry if he violated your license in any way. But also you should think that you are very angry because you had app 90% of way done and someone gets all credit for taking it that last 10%. But then that is your fault for not taking it that last 10% yourself.
I will most likely lose all my 10 hn point for this but I would just drop a note to elance and then forget about this issue. Don't be vindictive about this. You are amazing person and have an amazing day, be more happy :) Good luck on being a doctor, forgot about this guy.
- yuashizuki 12y agoWell its unfair to change the license and remove all the name of the orignal creator, yeah u can use the code to make money and all. But creadit should be given to the person who created it.
- detaro 12y agoHe didn't remove attribution or the license (yet), since he links to the original repository. Even the wording of the elance posts doesn't really claim they build it (but certainly also doesn't say "looking for someone who finishes this open-source app we found for us to use").
- yuashizuki 12y agowhy dont u look at his github profile, he changed the license
- yuashizuki 12y agohttps://github.com/sapanbhuta/Cents https://github.com/sapanbhuta/Cents where does it say that this was created by someone else
- eru 12y ago> He is scummy guy. Ok. Agreed. But like eru said, you make your code available under MIT license. You can't have it both way of putting your code under a license like that and then complaining when someone uses it in a way you don't like. It seems very hypocritical to me to be angry if he is using your license properly. If I put $100 dollar out to charity and they don't use it in a way I see fit, that is my fault, not theirs. That's almost true, but not quite. Does the MIT licence allow you to remove attribution?
- charlesdm 12y agoWas attribution removed? The only links in the elance posts that I can see are links to the original repository. Yes, he can profit from them. That's the entire point of MIT/BSD licenses, so that companies can use certain libraries and/or components in their commercial software.
- supster 12y agoYep you are right, I'm not super angry or looking to sue; I just wanted to give everyone a heads up (call it a public service announcement for hackers). I was just shocked when I found this out (quite by accident) and the whole thing just seemed semi-immoral. I understand that I open-sourced the repos, but the way they went about this just seems ungentlemanly. Anyways, thanks for your kind words, you are awesome too!
- potatosareok 12y agoHey, sorry about that comment, I went off on a bit of a rant and wasn't even really responding to things you actually put in your comment. Anyway, hopefully your PSA helps some other programmer consider the consequences of open sourcing their code.