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Re:Changing the Ungit license from MIT to Faircode by shadowmint on Sunday November 05, 2017 @09:56AM (#15629662)
It depends, is that work based on the free work of others?

Taking advantage of the community and not contributing back for others to benefit (as you have, for free) seems selfish to me.

Maybe if he proportionately (based on LOC or something) donated any income to his upstream dependencies?

...but I suspect that wouldn’t leave much.

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Re:Changing the Ungit license from MIT to Faircode by Tempest1981 on Sunday November 05, 2017 @10:25AM (#15629794)
I saw it as him encouraging the community to join him, on behalf of all starving developers who are giving big businesses a free ride.
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