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Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules by krapp on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @10:12PM (#11341642)
Which is a nice gesture, but since the wtfpl seems to give up any pretense of ownership on the part of the author, it's also irrelevant. Anyone can do what they want with it. If he wanted to keep tighter control of the code he should have published under a more restrictive license.

And, if he wanted people to take the time to be polite and contact him through his github account, maybe he shouldn't have wrecked so many people's builds.

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Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules by perennate on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @10:17PM (#11341649)
The "ownership" I assume is referring to ownership on npm. I was just saying that, based on that excerpt from the blog post, it sounds like the author didn't actually want to keep tighter control of the code, and that re-publishing the code doesn't really go against the author's wishes.
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Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules by AnkhMorporkian on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @08:13AM (#11343699)
I'm pretty sure the ownership he's referring to is the github repo. Since he unpublished from npm, he has no control over those names.
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