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Re:Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an ac... by skeledrew on Monday March 23, 2026 @05:41PM (#47495492)
> a company shared their work with the public for however long, then decided to leave what was shared up

More like a company took advantage of a community that expected their freely offered labor to not be commercialized at any point in time without making available said works in a fully free vector as well, as that's an implicit expectation behind "open source".

Re:Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an ac... by reactordev on Monday March 23, 2026 @05:52PM (#47495616)
Naive fools…

Companies stand to turn a profit. OSS is here to help enable that or push the goal posts. It’s not a charity unless the org feels charitable. Sure, non-profits exist but they were never one of those.

Re:Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an ac... by KronisLV on Monday March 23, 2026 @07:42PM (#47496685)
I think the comment on corpos is good, but insulting the naive people will get you downvoted - it’s probably not their fault nobody told them about this sort of thing before and learning that lesson is probably disappointing enough already.
Re:Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an ac... by gregoryl on Monday March 23, 2026 @08:40PM (#47497253)
We should return to the HN guidelines, and read it as charitably as possible.

I'm interpreting it as closer to pity, rather than genuine criticism =)

Re:Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an ac... by KronisLV on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @03:49AM (#47499687)
Sure! Slightly edited the tone, but I’m noticing that often people have idealistic attitudes about FOSS until they get burnt by bad faith actors or even just indifferent corps that have to keep the lights on. Quite unfortunate, definitely not their fault. Pity is correct.
Re:Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an ac... by reactordev on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @07:37AM (#47501190)
It’s definitely pity. It’s a hard pill to swallow when you were led to believe a certain world view of an entity only to find out they were milking your data.
Re:Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an ac... by andreareina on Monday March 23, 2026 @10:18PM (#47497922)
The GPL protects against this.
Re:Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an ac... by duskdozer on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @12:44AM (#47498685)
It looks like it's Apache licensed, so this was the expected and intended outcome for contributors. If they wanted their work to remain free and not become proprietary, they should have only contributed under perma-free licenses like GPL.
Re:Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an ac... by sneak on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @01:15AM (#47498841)
Donating software to the world is not an expectation that nobody uses that software to make money or build proprietary products on top of it.

Not all f/oss contributors are anticapitalist zealots like the FSF, as evidenced by the huge popularity of permissive licenses such as MIT.

There’s nothing implicit about it. The licenses are explicit legal documents.

Re:Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an ac... by skeledrew on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @12:01PM (#47504675)
> anticapitalist zealots like the FSF

In what way are they?

'The term "free" is used in the sense of "free speech", not "free of charge"'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition

Re:Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an ac... by nothrabannosir on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @02:13AM (#47499148)
> … took advantage of a community…

It would be helpful for everyone if that community would pause before contributing to code bases with licenses which allow for that. MIT, BSD, Apache, …

It would be helpful for them because they’ll know what they’re getting into. For us because we won’t have to see this tragedy unfold time and time again. And for all open source users because more efforts will be directed towards programs with licenses that protect end users. GPL, AGPL, …

It will be a little worse for companies seeking free labor. A price I’m willing to pay.