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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: 0.231s | 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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Incipient ◴[04 Jul 25 05:53 UTC] No.44461518[source]▶
And they've now orphaned that commit, they're a sketchy bunch at best.

Unfortunately, sketchy is generally rewarded.

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1. ValentineC ◴[04 Jul 25 05:58 UTC] No.44461542[source]▶
It looks like they've squashed everything into a single commit, since there's only a commit on their repo right now that was pushed 28 minutes ago (as of this comment).

That's probably the right thing to do Git-wise, because licences might not be retroactive.