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

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932 points sohzm | 2 comments | 04 Jul 25 02:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Disposal8433 ◴[04 Jul 25 04:03 UTC] No.44461043[source]▶
And it has the same fake excuse as usual "Since this was our first OSS project, we didn’t realize at first."

He sure discovered this new open source thing and it's very confusing. It's not like it's almost 40 years old at that point. I'll never understand people who lie like toddlers.

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h4ck_th3_pl4n3t ◴[04 Jul 25 06:57 UTC] No.44461821[source]▶
This incompetence excuse puts YC in a bad spotlight too, because it makes them look like they are funding people with exact zero software development experience.
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1. miki123211 ◴[04 Jul 25 08:29 UTC] No.44462426[source]▶
TBH, I know plenty of people with software development experience, who I think are genuinely pretty good at converting ideas to code, but who wouldn't have any idea what Apache or GPL mean.
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2. whilenot-dev ◴[04 Jul 25 10:07 UTC] No.44463093[source]▶
Every init-command requires you to define or at least review a license for your project, so I would refrain from calling that one "software development experience".