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Re:Chef dependency removed after agreement with ICE by shagie on Friday September 20, 2019 @08:16AM (#21025786)
https://opensource.org/osd-annotated

> 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups

> The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.

> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

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Being potentially used by organizations you don't agree with is what open source entails.

There also appears to be nothing wrong in the FOSS model of taking the last published version and forking it... and releasing that.

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Re:Chef dependency removed after agreement with ICE by Crinus on Friday September 20, 2019 @08:26AM (#21025875)
A FOSS license allows an organization you dislike to continue using your software, but it doesn't require that you continue working on and providing that software on any specific way (there is the requirement in GPL to provide on request for a limited amount of time but it doesn't specify method and that can be done via - e.g. - email).

Others can pick it up from where you left and continue, of course.

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Re:Chef dependency removed after agreement with ICE by missosoup on Friday September 20, 2019 @08:26AM (#21025878)
The license doesn't do any of those things. The author has chosen to stop hosting the project because of those things.

That is their right.

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