• @KelsonV@lemmy.world
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    534 months ago

    If I’m reading this correctly, the headline is…very inaccurate.

    It looks like a dispute between two developers in Organic Maps, who both started out at Maps.me, specifically over whether their CDN redirector should be public or private.

    • mesaOP
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      174 months ago

      It’s one of the reasons I linked the hn discussion. Lots of accusations going around right now. It’s unfortunate as I like that app, but this kind of splitting is important to know about.

      • @ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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        4 months ago

        My experience with HN is comments from out-of-touch engineers and me-too startup folks circle jerking with themselves. Can’t say they’re any better than the random discourse on social media.

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          Yea, the comments there are just, wrong.

          People claiming since the repo wasn’t public the MIT license didn’t matter. But since admins contributed under that license, it 100% matters.

          No reason to wait for the dust to settle. Roman noticed a removal of an MIT license he contributed to, also noticed the inclusion of user logging, so he released MIT work he contributed to. He’s in the right.

          It’s a shame.

  • @tabular@lemmy.world
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    394 months ago

    Sad, but also funny to see someone revoke an MIT license. Presumably they think that is retroactive as why do it otherwise. Instead of preventing use they just un-invite themselves from any group that wishes to continue it’s open source development.

    • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      Wow, that’s an incredible misunderstanding of copyright. Screw 'em.

      Organic Maps rocks. Maybe I’ll go donate.

      Edit: Read a bit of the discussion and it seems this is 100% Organic Maps, Maps.me is unrelated. I’ll hold off until the drama revolves.

  • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    164 months ago

    Seems like some spicy drama. I’ll check back in a few days to see how it resolves. I love Organic Maps and I hope the core team resolves this appropriately.