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

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931 points sohzm | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 02:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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an0malous ◴[04 Jul 25 02:53 UTC] No.44460764[source]▶
There’s a reason they ask the question about describing a time you “hacked a system to your advantage” in the YC application. They have always selected for founders who are willing to take advantage of legal and ethical gray areas. Reddit created fake users and farmed content from Digg, Airbnb scraped listings from Craigslist.
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mindcrime ◴[04 Jul 25 02:57 UTC] No.44460778[source]▶
There is no "grey area" here, and this isn't "hacking".
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1. rincebrain ◴[04 Jul 25 04:47 UTC] No.44461201[source]▶
There's an argument to be made that, even if it's an open and shut violation, if enforcement is nontrivial and a vanishingly low risk, it still pattern matches as "grey area" in terms of risk.

Not at all in favor of the person stealing someone else's code and slapping a new name on it in violation of the license, just that I think I see why people might list that as matching the same intent as a question like that.