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minus-squarejmcs@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up31arrow-down3·5 days agoOne thing I’m missing in all this, did the dude change the license from GPL without the other contributors express permission? That on itself would be a massive violation of the GPL
minus-squareteolan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·5 days agoHe says he has had permission. Given that it’s a mostly 1 person project it’s possibly true.
minus-squarejmcs@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down1·5 days agoThe repo alone has 114 contributors, and that’s assuming no one copied code from any other project. It’s not that small.
minus-squarecopygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down3·5 days agoA lot of contributors of FOSS projects make small changes that aren’t copyrightable.
minus-squarerefalo@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agolicenses are only as useful as your ability to enforce them in court
One thing I’m missing in all this, did the dude change the license from GPL without the other contributors express permission? That on itself would be a massive violation of the GPL
He says he has had permission. Given that it’s a mostly 1 person project it’s possibly true.
The repo alone has 114 contributors, and that’s assuming no one copied code from any other project. It’s not that small.
A lot of contributors of FOSS projects make small changes that aren’t copyrightable.
licenses are only as useful as your ability to enforce them in court