> snap is open source But Google now lays claim over its copyright which gives them the right to sell it or take it down completely. But thankfully - if you ha

> snap is open source But Google now lays claim over its copyright which gives them the right to sell it or take it down completely. But thankfully - if you have an old version - they can't retroactively change the license. However - that won't stop Google from sending DMCA takedowns if it gets big enough. > so this example is a non-issue It's a huge issue - when people and companies don't even understand the terms of the GPL [1] copyright and licenses could make a huge impact. Yes - someone can fork it and call it pans and make all sorts of awesome changes - but that's horrible for software development. Now there are 2 different versions with different features - I would rather one project that completely works than 2 similar projects that kind of works. > the author didn't care The other contributors did - and that's equally important. I would not want to piss off the people who are contributing code to my project. Once other people start contributing code - a good open source project should respect the opinions and comments of the community. [1] https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/85c03a289fe56c67636ed6409011bc76964272a4 https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/85c03a289fe56c67636ed6...