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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: 0s | source
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danielpkl ◴[04 Jul 25 05:06 UTC] No.44461271[source]▶
Hi everyone, this is Daniel from the Pickle team. Glass is a new open source project from us that we plan to build on and improve. We built several original features for it like live summaries, real-time STT Transcript and one-click "Ask" from summary that we're very excited about. However in initially building it we included code from a GPL-licensed project that we incorrectly attributed as Apache. This was incorrect and sloppy work on our end. We made a quick fix and are working right now to do a proper fix that addresses the issues fully and cleanly. We are sorry to the original author of the project, Soham (CheatingDaddy), and thank him for pointing this out. We are also sorry to the open source community for messing up here. Thanks everyone for caring about this.
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ayongpm ◴[04 Jul 25 06:14 UTC] No.44461617[source]▶
You won’t be forgiven unless you restore the license to GPL v3.
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ayongpm ◴[04 Jul 25 06:19 UTC] No.44461639[source]▶
You restored the license to GPL v3: https://github.com/pickle-com/glass/commit/5c462179acface889...

You won't be forgiven unless you credited sohzm and state that cheating-daddy is a direct inspiration

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1. sam1r ◴[04 Jul 25 07:31 UTC] No.44462051{3}[source]▶
I love comments like this ^. It provides a solution to the table, rather than conversing the problem over dinner.

IMO This sounds pretty fair to me. Publicly apologize somewhere, and link OP to it. I like that. Or come on, at least Venmo "the kid" $1000 -- "a kid" who saved you time, and is putting food on your table.

"A kid" whose idea you took and profited on. Wow, just realizing upon writing this -- what if Pickle CEO has kids, and one your kid reads this?