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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: 0.208s | 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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oaiey ◴[04 Jul 25 07:58 UTC] No.44462242[source]▶
I do not know what is wrong with software engineers. This is theft (or whatever the lawyers says in the IP law) and now stating: Ooops we did not know, our bad, we keep it till we have found a replacement. Mistakes happen also in real life, but libraries is a common thing, like cars standing on a street. You do not accidently steal a car.

Software Engineering is more than coding. Basic license management incl. library vetting is part of it. If you decide to ignore that, you do not run a business enterprise, you run a criminal enterprise.

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ohdeargodno[dead post] ◴[04 Jul 25 10:06 UTC] No.44463088[source]▶
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tomhow ◴[04 Jul 25 10:28 UTC] No.44463211[source]▶
> Playing with daddy's money

Personal attacks like this are not ok.

Sure, criticize their actions, but don't parlay that into this kind of personal swipe at the individuals and their families; that's when the line is crossed from valid critique of actions to nasty mob pile-on, and that's never ok here.

Not that it should matter but as far as I can tell, the Pickle founder/CEO grew up and studied in Korea, and we have no idea what their family circumstances were.

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ohdeargodno[dead post] ◴[04 Jul 25 10:57 UTC] No.44463390[source]▶
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tomhow ◴[04 Jul 25 11:08 UTC] No.44463449[source]▶
It’s obviously diminutive and patronizing, and makes implications or assumptions about them and their families that are based on stereotypes or sparse information. It’s clearly against the guidelines and the guidelines aren’t discarded altogether just because a YC company is involved.
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jcgrillo ◴[04 Jul 25 12:01 UTC] No.44463777[source]▶
damn right it's diminutive, and why the hell not? these clowns and the idiots who fund their tomfoolery deserve it
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tomhow ◴[04 Jul 25 12:24 UTC] No.44463912[source]▶
We have no idea what the realities of their lives are.

We only know the basic facts of the wrongdoing that’s been reported here, which is of course fine to criticize.

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1. EraYaN ◴[04 Jul 25 13:21 UTC] No.44464325[source]▶
YC isn't that unknown and you can absolutely judge that org for funding stuff like this, you really don't need that much detail. And if you have interacted with a lot of the "founders" you know that statistically you're in the clear to judge them all too. It's a pretty weird world where a lot of dumb exists, like A LOT. The realities of their lives are frankly immaterial anyway, it's about the output (and input in case of VC money).