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Re:OpenWarp by bestouff on Friday May 01, 2026 @05:20AM (#47972711)
Warp is already an Alacritty fork with no acknowledgement. I feel they deserve no respect for this.

see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939527

Re:OpenWarp by scosman on Friday May 01, 2026 @05:34AM (#47972781)
But calling it OpenAlacritty would be worse, which is what happened here.
Re:OpenWarp by SwellJoe on Friday May 01, 2026 @12:05PM (#47976374)
I don't know anything about that (I didn't know what Warp was until yesterday, still kinda don't know, as it seems to be a terminal plus AI and I don't know what that actually means). But, alacritty's license seems to allow proprietary forks.

The license requires copyright notice to follow the code and that seems to be present: https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp/blob/6d7a01cc9727472a1bcb...

I dunno if they adhered to the license previous to open sourcing, though, as you have to include it somewhere in the actual binary distribution, as well, and some folks don't do that. And, that's also shitty and unethical.