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

[–] teolan@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He says he has had permission. Given that it's a mostly 1 person project it's possibly true.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The repo alone has 114 contributors, and that's assuming no one copied code from any other project. It's not that small.

[–] copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 4 days ago

A lot of contributors of FOSS projects make small changes that aren't copyrightable.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

licenses are only as useful as your ability to enforce them in court

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He claims to have permission from every developer. And if he forgot someone (how do he forget, if there is a literal list of who contributed), then the person should please talk to him. Also he claims to have rewritten lot of the parts where he did not have permission or he just wanted to rewrite.

I assume he did all of that and the code is pure. But I highly dislike this move. This guy cares more about others making money of his project, than the Open Source community. In fact, he is hostile to Open Source now.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 10 points 4 days ago

well, at least former versions are still GPL