graingert / WOW

Reveal CSS animation as you scroll down a page
https://wowjs.uk
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WHY IS THIS MIT LICENSED? #17

Open edberteliezer opened 6 years ago

edberteliezer commented 6 years ago

"The UpLicense gives you the right to use an product purchased from the Uplabs Store for personal use or as part of a commercial project, for yourself or a third party. However, the product cannot be redistributed for free or sold, on its own or in a bundle, where it constitutes the core value of the end product." IMO, this is illegal distribution of wow.js. I dont understand the law basis of this. Why the website also copy original site? Any clarification? Did I just accidentally steal software?

kolbma commented 6 years ago

I'm pretty sure he has forked this before the origin becomes a paid model and the changes since that are not from origin but self-made or contributed under MIT license which has never changed.
So it can stay MIT licensed.

edberteliezer commented 6 years ago

Ok So now I am pretty sure I didn't accidentally steal software. Still, this seems shady though. The @webalys designer dude make commit to this forked repo. He is also the guy who design the origin paid site, I believe. So this fork could be some sort of inside job?? Wtf is initiated by webalys? wtf is initiated means lol? I think they are trying to make this the unofficial official free version? And there is no copyright notice for like years so I guess I'll be fine.