Re:The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer
by TAForObvReasons on Saturday September 16, 2017 @10:00AM
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The biggest rub for me was the intentional misdirection regarding the Apache 2 License.
As a web server, the only attribution required is to the person or entity who is deploying the server, not to the people accessing the website! (To be clear on that point, the actual web server software is running on the server end, not on the user end; this is in contrast with a JS library that runs in the web browser)
I think the authors either fundamentally misunderstand the requirements (in which case they should find a lawyer) or they are intentionally misleading readers (in which case they are acting in bad faith and deserve contempt)
As a web server, the only attribution required is to the person or entity who is deploying the server, not to the people accessing the website! (To be clear on that point, the actual web server software is running on the server end, not on the user end; this is in contrast with a JS library that runs in the web browser)
I think the authors either fundamentally misunderstand the requirements (in which case they should find a lawyer) or they are intentionally misleading readers (in which case they are acting in bad faith and deserve contempt)