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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: 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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aleph_minus_one ◴[04 Jul 25 08:42 UTC] No.44462515[source]▶
> because it makes them look like they are funding people with exact zero software development experience.

Being a great software developer does not make you a lawyer (not even a bad lawyer).

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d1sxeyes ◴[04 Jul 25 09:12 UTC] No.44462729[source]▶
Forking an open source repo and claiming you built something in 4 days does not make you a great software developer either though.
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1. aleph_minus_one ◴[04 Jul 25 09:24 UTC] No.44462800[source]▶
> claiming you built something in 4 days

That is why when such a marketing claim comes up, the first question to ask is from which base they built the respective product in 4 days, and which kind of additional value the respective company added during this process.