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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 38 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

For one is was under a license what not only not Foss but completely violated Github TOS.

Also the repo had a bunch of code they didn't own the rights to like the Adobe stuff.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

I like how they were like “you can’t fork this repo” and it’s like — actually yes I can.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, like one of the few things GitHub actually requires you to let people do is press the dang fork button.