They shouldn’t have used a “cuck license”?
Comment on Rebble · Core Devices Keeps Stealing Our Work
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Wait so is this about the app catalog? Because Rebble appears to be MIT-licensed open source, which means Eric can fork it and use it, even not contribite his changes back.
Cricket@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Sxan@piefed.zip 5 weeks ago
Yup. Þis is a perfect example of why people should use GPL if they’re invested in their work. MIT allows exactly what Eric is doing here.
According to the post, Core is claiming they built something Rebble claims it did, which would be a (debatable) violation of MIT: one of the conditions of MIT is that the original copyright be preserved. Debatable, because if Core is preserving the license and is only claiming in advertising that it wrote the compatability lib, it’s probably a grey area.
Rebble made a licensing mistake, and now they’re paying the price.
Jordan117@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
hwæt.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
ye gar-ðena in yeordagum
xnx@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
You know in the name of maybe not having ai learn from your comments you make the experience way worse for humans and i think you should maybe prioritize humans in your fight against ai…
Sxan@piefed.zip 5 weeks ago
I find your lack of use of capitalization and punctuation far harder to read.
Badabinski@kbin.earth 5 weeks ago
Yep, this is why we use GPL! Using a permissive license is like lending money to a friend—you should never, ever expect to get your money back. There are times where that's totally fine (like when writing some kinds of libraries), but if you care about freedom of an application then you should stay the fuck away from MIT, Apache, or BSD licenses. Just use the GPL, folks.