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Getting Forked by Microsoft (philiplaine.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

In today's episode of What happens when you don't use the GPL

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

We really need a license that works out compensation for opensource projects used by companies or anyone generating revenue from it. This stuff will keep on happening at the same scale it does otherwise.

https://postopen.org/ might be one of those licences and they need funding.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

They added the attribution

https://github.com/avtakkar/peerd/commit/15aa104827b5552d48a7462eef6d040eca2ad582

https://github.com/Azure/peerd/issues/109

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Getting f***ed by Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I completely agree, but isn't this what the developer signed up for when they chose the MIT Licence? not that ms couldn't just ignore a GPL Licence, but still

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Forked works better when it comes to FOSS imo.