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Apache explicitly allows this. I don't get why OSI bros are endlessly surprised by this.
I'm a little bit in the camp of 'it might be legal, but that doesn't mean it is ok'. So I get why people are annoyed. Also copying a whole project and then slamming a different license on it and going 'jobs done' very much fits the promptfondler vibe, so im not mad, more of a 'lol, of course they did' thing. But that is me.
It's a little illegal and a lot christ what assholes
They apparently copied without attribution in a manner that was a violation? I'm still looking for precise wording of the PEL.
It's very hard to violate the Apache license, but these are the sort of bozos who could manage it.
EDIT: Here is the PEL. It lacks the attribution requirements of section 4 of the Apache Licence 2.0. So yeah, they managed it.
This is a small technical violation that's easily remedied, but I understand that's what got people pissed off.
Yeah, pretty bad coverage of that by the article.
Apache isn't GPL, and it isn't an oversight that it allows closed source derivative works.