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Re:What NPM should do to stop a new colors attack by selfhoster11 on Monday January 10, 2022 @04:18PM (#29882690)
Perhaps by the time he started feeling this way, it was too late to relicense? Megacorps would just fork from a pre-GPL release and carry on.
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Re:What NPM should do to stop a new colors attack by peoplefromibiza on Monday January 10, 2022 @04:29PM (#29882859)
that's my understansing as well.

I'm not judging the author here, but on one hand I understand the frustration, on the other hand the package probably owes its popularity in part to its very permissive license.

Anyway, a fork maintained by the companies that use the package would still be a better outcome than keep working for them for free (or remove the package entirely).

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