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My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

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932 points sohzm | 5 comments | 04 Jul 25 02:04 UTC | HN request time: 1.1s | source
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alberth ◴[04 Jul 25 03:06 UTC] No.44460831[source]▶
Maybe I’m looking at the wrong repos but both appear to be GPL-3 (or maybe it was relicensed back to original GPL-3?)

https://github.com/sohzm/cheating-daddy

https://github.com/pickle-com/glass

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1. sohzm ◴[04 Jul 25 03:07 UTC] No.44460835[source]▶
yeah he changed it rn https://github.com/pickle-com/glass/commit/5c462179acface889...
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2. gnabgib ◴[04 Jul 25 03:16 UTC] No.44460884[source]▶
He=you? What's the game here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44460855
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3. AnotherGoodName ◴[04 Jul 25 03:25 UTC] No.44460921[source]▶
That's the author of this post talking about the other person changing their licensing to match.
4. h4ck_th3_pl4n3t ◴[04 Jul 25 07:04 UTC] No.44461863[source]▶
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5. breakingcups ◴[04 Jul 25 07:46 UTC] No.44462166[source]▶
Then rewrote the history and force-pushed so it never happened.