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

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932 points sohzm | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 02:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.246s | source
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fargle ◴[04 Jul 25 03:09 UTC] No.44460848[source]▶
looks like they fixed it: https://github.com/pickle-com/glass/commit/5c462179acface889...

let's not freak out - you can't "steal" open-source code, they used an incompatible license. that was accidentally too free.

people monetizing something you open-source isn't stealing.

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tareqak ◴[04 Jul 25 03:19 UTC] No.44460896[source]▶
From what I understand, it would be a breach of contract at minimum (based on what I remember from past discussions of this sort of activity involving different participants).

If someone else has a better idea of what “forking GPL 3 source code and using a different licence” would be, then please let me and others know.

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1. jrflowers ◴[04 Jul 25 03:42 UTC] No.44460974[source]▶
Realistically this will probably just have a reputational cost for Daniel Park/Pickle. Whether he intended to or not, some amount of people will associate “pretends to make things that he did not make” with him because of this entirely unforced error.