Re:Lerna relicences to protest ICE
by Benjamin_Dobell on Thursday August 30, 2018 @04:03AM
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> You fundamentally misunderstand how licensing of copyrighted work works.
That's quite the accusation.
I'm not going to repeat myself further. I suggest you read my existing comments regarding this matter, in particular https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17869267
They don't own copyright to the code, its respective authors do, but they have a license to it (MIT) and are free to distribute and use the code as long as they meet the requirements the license puts on them. Which they do.
That this whole shitstorm was monumentally stupid go-proprietary-in-a-fit-of-zeal is another thing.