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arrow-up1495arrow-down1external-linkThis AI Startup "Copied" an Open-Source Project and Got Half a Million Dollar Funding by Y Combinatornews.itsfoss.comRobotToaster@mander.xyz to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 1 个月前message-square77fedilink
minus-squaredelirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 个月前If its forked from a Foss project then its necessarily a Foss project. That’s why we use Foss licenses.
minus-squarenek0d3r@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 个月前Right, exactly, which is why they launched with a FOSS license. Oh, wait– Imagine the money going to VSCode which actually is the one getting contributions
minus-squaredelirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·1 个月前If you’re upset, just ask them for the source. If they don’t respond, sue. In any case, we’re all going to get the source and we’ll all benefit from this.
minus-squarenek0d3r@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 个月前The source is literally just VSCode with a different label. What benefit does that have?
minus-squarealt_xa_23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 个月前Vscode is released under a MIT license and the Continue extension is released under Apache. Neither is copyleft, so the forked codebase doesn’t need to be open source
minus-squaredelirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 个月前Ah you’re right. Blame Vscode for using MIT. Maybe now is a good time to tell them to change it to GPL, so this can’t happen again.
If its forked from a Foss project then its necessarily a Foss project. That’s why we use Foss licenses.
Right, exactly, which is why they launched with a FOSS license. Oh, wait–
Imagine the money going to VSCode which actually is the one getting contributions
If you’re upset, just ask them for the source. If they don’t respond, sue.
In any case, we’re all going to get the source and we’ll all benefit from this.
The source is literally just VSCode with a different label. What benefit does that have?
Vscode is released under a MIT license and the Continue extension is released under Apache. Neither is copyleft, so the forked codebase doesn’t need to be open source
Ah you’re right. Blame Vscode for using MIT. Maybe now is a good time to tell them to change it to GPL, so this can’t happen again.