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ssddanbrown / Open-Source-Confusion-Cases

A list of cases where open source licenses are misrepresented or where "Open Source" is used in a non-open-source-definition adhering manner.
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Skiff #22

Open ssddanbrown opened 11 months ago

ssddanbrown commented 11 months ago

As reported by @illiliti. For the Skiff project. Advertise as open source in many places (homepage, open source page, blog). Licensed mostly as CC BY-NC-SA (Preventing commercial use-cases).

Showing signs of being receptive to change in the latest thread, so I'd say let's leave this open for a bit to see how things play out.

Edit: Was eventually bought out by notion. Some users requested the actually open up their code now in the follow-up issue above, since their services are going away with the acquisition, but they then deleted that thread.

Adjacent to this, this was featured by "It's FOSS News" who eventually added a banner to alert about "the licensing might not be entirely open-source compatible" half way down the article, well below the fold.

illiliti commented 11 months ago

I want to note that I've been banned from participating and all my comments were marked as abuse, even unrelated ones.

Showing signs of being receptive to change in the latest thread

I'd say it is nothing but a deliberate inaction. A week is more than enough to take action. But what we see instead? Useless discussions about nothing and attempt to suppress those who ask for action to remove all false advertising.

ssddanbrown commented 11 months ago

I'd say it is nothing but a deliberate inaction. A week is more than enough to take action.

Maybe, but I generally prefer to give the benefit of the doubt here, and would wait in the range of a month or two before classing as inaction. You never know what people are personally dealing with and what internal politics there may be.

illiliti commented 11 months ago

No problem, let's wait.

illiliti commented 10 months ago

It's been a month since initial contact and no action has been done whatsoever despite numerous attempts to call for attention to this problem(I'll note again that I was even banned for that).

ssddanbrown commented 5 months ago

Forgot to circle back to this, but now it's being bought out by notion. Service won't exist so something to add to the resolved list once that happens but will be interesting to see if anything happens with the code.

There was some requests for this yesterday in the follow-up thread which they've now deleted too.