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0 pointsmarcinzm4y ago0 comments

The Badoo/Bumble code was Apache 2 published on Github, and the code in question is also Apache 2 published on Github. So I have no idea what your point is.

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vmception4y ago· 2 in thread

How was the approval given for that license to be used? Did the company sign it over and then retroactively renege? Did they just notice that a core developer was their employee at an overlapping time?

marcinzmOP4y ago

Huh? The company made their code open source under a permissive license. A developer working there then built their own package inspired by that code on their own time. I'm not sure where ethically the issue is here. Many things are legal but not ethical. So while they may legally be able to compel him that doesn't mean their action isn't unethical and petty. Companies that do unethical and petty things tend to be horrible places to work eventually.

vmception4y ago

I think you jumped the gun trying to predict how this conversation would go

I am asking exclusively about the legal circumstance

And also stop acting confused at every response, this is a normal conversation where someone asks about the context and the other person replies with the answer, I skimmed the tweet thread but the background isn't familiar to me and thats what the point of the conversation is

You are too tuned to expecting an adversarial comment to defend, when thats not the case at all

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