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Re:Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open sour... by angus-prune on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @11:42AM (#27973759)
The author blogged about it in 2009 [1]

TL;DR They used a MIT licence and other people were selling broken, rebranded cashgrab copies without changing things like the installer or crash logs being sent to the author etc

[1] https://blog.getpaint.net/2009/11/06/a-new-license-for-paint...

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Re:Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open sour... by beerandt on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @02:22PM (#27975716)
So why isn't this a problem for other open source software? Or is it? Is it only because of the high demand for a cheaper/free Photoshop alternative?
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Re:Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open sour... by david_allison on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:53PM (#27977494)
It is.

It's more than frustrating to have crash logs that don't refer to your code and contain access tokens or similar data because the author of the 'rebranded' software doesn't care about user privacy.

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