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Re:“Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ” by baby on Sunday November 15, 2020 @03:36PM (#25104575)
People wanted open source to be a thing, and now people are not happy anymore. Smh
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Re:“Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ” by zeusflight on Sunday November 15, 2020 @05:14PM (#25105438)
Open source != unpaid, uncredited work. That is just what corporations want it to be. In this case, it's a violation of the open source MIT license to remove the original copyright statement.
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Re:“Facebook has taken the name of my open source project ” by enneff on Sunday November 15, 2020 @09:10PM (#25107190)
It’s a reimplementation that the guy wrote in a few hours. It is not a derived work.
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