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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: 0.327s | 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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eqvinox ◴[04 Jul 25 11:46 UTC] No.44463683[source]▶
> This was incorrect and sloppy work […]

You meant: this was illegal and unethical work.

You might be lucky with the original author not suing you. I'm not sure your backers will be equally kind. I certainly wouldn't, depending on what exactly you told your investors we may be looking at straight up securities fraud here.

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reaperducer ◴[04 Jul 25 11:51 UTC] No.44463722[source]▶
You meant: this was illegal and unethical work.

But... but... but... Velocity! And moats! And we're VC-funded! Doesn't that mean we can do whatever we want?

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1. aleph_minus_one ◴[04 Jul 25 11:59 UTC] No.44463762[source]▶
> And we're VC-funded! Doesn't that mean we can do whatever we want?

Side remark: Since YC claims all the time that they invest in people, not in ideas, YC should perhaps part from the people behind Pickle very fast, since by their investment YC rubber-stamped that the people behind Pickle are great ones (but not necessarily the product of Pickle), something that YC perhaps does not want to uphold anymore. :-)