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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: 0.312s | source
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JonChesterfield ◴[04 Jul 25 10:38 UTC] No.44463274[source]▶
"Fair enough. Since this was our first OSS project, we didn’t realize at first. We’ve now revised it. Thanks for your contribution."

We didn't notice that we copied your codebase, changed the name then pretended to have built it in four days?

Good grief.

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gpderetta ◴[04 Jul 25 11:52 UTC] No.44463726[source]▶
"we are sorry we got caught"
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reactordev ◴[04 Jul 25 12:03 UTC] No.44463787[source]▶
I would be running for the hills if I were YC. This is the kind of attitude that ends up in lawsuits.
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gryfft ◴[04 Jul 25 12:38 UTC] No.44463989[source]▶
I thought tech companies were supposed to move fast and break stuff.
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ksec ◴[05 Jul 25 04:39 UTC] No.44470104[source]▶
> I thought tech companies were supposed to move fast and break stuff.

This mentality is relatively new. Or more like invented by Facebook and got marketed the heck by PRs and marketing firms.

And now we have people who code before they think.

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1. gryfft ◴[05 Jul 25 11:44 UTC] No.44472068[source]▶
> And now we have people who code before they think.

Thanks to coding agents, now we can have engineers who do neither