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Re:Maps.me co-founder tries to close down Organic Maps open-... by pastk on Saturday December 07, 2024 @05:21AM (#42348726)
The MIT license was added by Alexander himself in the initial commit in June 2021. Since then Roman has contributed actively to the code and Viktor started to contribute more recently.

So there are people who contributed the code under the MIT license, so its not a sole work of Alexander and the license was not added as a mistake.

IMO from a legal standpoint Roman is absolutely in his right to redistribute the code.

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Re:Maps.me co-founder tries to close down Organic Maps open-... by Vinnl on Saturday December 07, 2024 @11:18AM (#42350712)
Yes, as I mention in my footnote, Roman was absolutely legally in the clear. I'm just saying that Alexandr's initial adding of the licence was probably a mistake in the sense that he did not intend to do that (that led to people contributing under different assumptions), and one they probably could have found a way to resolve had he communicated about the difference in assumptions.
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