He took GPLv3 code, which is a copyleft license that requires you share your source code and license your project under the same terms as the code you used. You also can’t distribute your project as a binary-only or proprietary software. When pressed, they only released the code for their front end, remaining in violation of GPLv3.
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ramenshaman@lemmy.world 5 months agoPardon my ignorance but how do you steal code if it’s open source?
Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
hperrin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You don’t follow the license that it was distributed under.
Commonly, if you use open source code in your project and that code is under a license that requires your project to be open source if you do that, but then you keep yours closed source.
fidodo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I still wouldn’t call it stealing, but I guess “broke open source code licenses” doesn’t have the same impact, but I’d prefer accuracy.
bamboo@lemm.ee 5 months ago
It’s piracy, distributing copyrighted works against the terms of its license. I agree stealing is not really the right word.
JustZ@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Nah piracy is with like boats.