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Re:Update from Chef by briffle on Monday September 23, 2019 @01:52PM (#21051463)
I don't know much about chef (have used ansible and salt-stack). In a previous story, it talked about how a developer removed his code from a repository of Ruby Gems that chef uses, and broke many systems that had that as a dependency. And that Chef then "fixed the issue" after a bit of time.

I'm just wondering, to publish these GEMS for chef, do you have to sign over your copyright? or is there a specific licensing requirement?

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Re:Update from Chef by Four8Five on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:01PM (#21051586)
They fixed the issue by literally forking and removing his name from everything.
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Re:Update from Chef by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:30PM (#21051947)
Um. Do you mean that they directly took the existing code and took his name out of it? That would be a pretty big no-no from a copyright perspective. (But it also wouldn't do anything, so I assume I'm misunderstanding)
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Re:Update from Chef by davidcelis on Monday September 23, 2019 @03:08PM (#21052406)
They removed his name from everywhere _except_ the license notices. Which is kinda worse.
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