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0 pointsdublinben10y ago0 comments

If the complaint is to be believed, most of these weren't really 'projects' but just copies of the original source code.

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tacone10y ago

The kind of copies one does to be safe in the case the original repo disappears for some reason. Ironic.

Usually using the "fork" option suffices... these changed the original repo to remove GPL and such.

tacone10y ago

According to the notice, they were unchanged or mostly unchanged forks of the master.

I presume one wouldn't strip copyright in those cases.

tacone10y ago

They didn't. The master repository did, they probably weren't aware of the issue.

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0 pointsdublinben10y ago0 comments

If the complaint is to be believed, most of these weren't really 'projects' but just copies of the original source code.

tacone10y ago

The kind of copies one does to be safe in the case the original repo disappears for some reason. Ironic.

Usually using the "fork" option suffices... these changed the original repo to remove GPL and such.

tacone10y ago

According to the notice, they were unchanged or mostly unchanged forks of the master.

I presume one wouldn't strip copyright in those cases.

tacone10y ago

They didn't. The master repository did, they probably weren't aware of the issue.

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