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[–] Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 78 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Probably the reason they're moving to a Web offering. They could just take down the binary files and be gpl compliant, this whole thing is so stupid

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think that's what AGPL tries to prevent

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but if the code they took is not AGPL then this loophole still applies

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I meant more that AGPL was created to plug this particular loophole. As in, if it was AGPL, they couldn't do this.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's true

Although I personally am not a fan of licences this strict, MIT+Apache2.0 seems good enough for me. Of course, that might change with time and precedents like this 😅