Re:License update
by moxie on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @02:39AM
(#11907531)
> To anyone looking on, from the outside, it looks like OWS has taken a giant flip from their previous position:
This is not a "giant flip." We told Chris and everyone else both in person and publicly that they were free to use these libraries in their apps so long as they were otherwise complying with the GPL. You can even see my response to that exact comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11727870
Even though we had given explicit permission for Chris and others to use this code in their OSS apps, people like you -- who wish to see conspiracy in every choice we make -- continued to paint it as some kind of cold calculated move to prevent OSS apps from using our software (for what reason is beyond me). So we worked with a lawyer on this solution.
And now, what? This is part of the conspiracy too. Great.
This is not a "giant flip." We told Chris and everyone else both in person and publicly that they were free to use these libraries in their apps so long as they were otherwise complying with the GPL. You can even see my response to that exact comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11727870
Even though we had given explicit permission for Chris and others to use this code in their OSS apps, people like you -- who wish to see conspiracy in every choice we make -- continued to paint it as some kind of cold calculated move to prevent OSS apps from using our software (for what reason is beyond me). So we worked with a lawyer on this solution.
And now, what? This is part of the conspiracy too. Great.