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Such a poorly researched article. The author doesn't know much about Russian or Ukrainian culture or history. But spares no opportunity to throw in the word 'Ukrainian'.

Gogol's letters to his parents, relatives and friends are published and well-known, you can go and read them here:

http://gogol-lit.ru/gogol/pisma-gogolya/index.htm

They are written in perfectly understandable if slightly archaic Russian. Zero Ukrainian influence can be seen, unlike in his Dikanka/Mirgorod collection of short stories. This makes me think that Gogol wasn't 100% fluent in his supposedly native Malorossian dialect.

Not sure about Gogol's contemporaries, but there is almost no linguistic distance between modern Russian and Gogol's prose. The reason is simple -(in the later half of 20th century) every single Russian had to read Gogol in middle/high school.

His influence on later Russian prose was also immense. Basically, the Russian of Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Gorky was built on foundations laid down by Gogol, with Pushkin thrown in for a good measure.

If that defines Gogol as a Ukrainian for you, you are welcome. Why not call him a Polish writer then?

[To clarify: My opinion is that he was born, was citizen of and lived in Russian Empire. He was thinking and writing in Russian language. Thus he was a Russian of Polish/Ukrainian descent, not a Ukrainian.]

You are still redistributing source code that is derivative of transporter's code (like goja_builder.go and other stuff). Not to mention that anyone can just roll back commits in your repository and get to the original code of transporter, with original license, copyright and even authors list.

I think that's a license violation, because you are not keeping an original copyright notice in repositor. If you think otherwise - whatever. I don't want to argue on technicalities.

I think I'll just forward info to transporter's developers, so that they can handle the situation the way they want. You can argue with them or maybe they just don't care.

Sure, there is some mention of "!oss". It's not 100% clear though. I sure missed it.

You are redistributing transporter's source though, because it's avalaible from the github repository. Wtf are you even talking about? There is some code almost straight from transporter in your abc repository.

Sure, you've made changes. Why should anyone be interested though if it's 100% closed-sourced? "free while in beta" my ass.

I did a bit of digging in the repository. And I didn't like what I found.

First off, this project seems to be based on:

https://github.com/compose/transporter

But of course every mention of transporter or compose.io was removed from repository, including original BSD-3 license. Which is clearly a violation of BSD-3 license terms.

Guys, this is not how open source works. You shouldn't try to claim all the credit when your work is clearly a derivative of another work.

And this isn't even the worst thing about the project. While it claims to be an open-source software, almost all of its functionality has been removed from the source code.

Thus as an open source software it's completely useless. If you build it from source it probably does nothing, because syncing code is closed source.

Yeah, I know you can download pre-built executable. But I won't ever be running some closed-source freeware/commercial software in production.

No, thank you very much. Especially if aforementioned software was written by someone who completely lacks any notion of ethics.