Probably should have licensed it properly from the get-go then, they can and probably will just use old commits.
> Probably should have licensed it properly from the get-go then
Haha yeah!
> they can and probably will just use old commits
I don’t know, maybe. some people might. there’s always gonna be some software piracy.
Are you a lawyer?
I never said it was.
> ... dishonest to pretend it was never oss ...
Dishonest? Ha! Who's pretending?
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With the piracy comment I see where you went wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35501855
You think I'm saying that people using old code with old licenses is piracy.
What I'm really saying is that there's always piracy... so who cares about old code, old licenses and people using it? Doesn't matter.
But with your "dishonest ... pretending never oss" comment, I don't see how you got that wrong.
I mean, you're the one who's being dishonest and pretending there, it looks like:
The licenses are present in the commit history! I'm not being dishonest about, or hiding, or pretending about anything.
And I even confirm it above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35499733
> … formerly OSS …
Mm, that’s correct.
Thank you! :) ;p xx ;p
No, but I have learned a bit about software licensing to be able to meaningfully engage in making run of Minio, so this is real info.
Specifically, most open licenses have a clause like this:
(from GPL3) ...and are irrevocable provided the stated conditions are met ...
Which is the bit that means you can't decide after the fact that at this point in time the software was not licensed under GPL3, this is to protect from I guess license-entrapment, which is sort of what you'd like to do.
However, even when this irrevocability is unmentioned, there's US precedent[1] that consideration is exchanged in the use of a FOSS license, which TLDRLEGAL means that a license not mentioning irrevocability is likely revocable only for violation of its conditions.
More details: [2]
1: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=177761825741712... 2: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/4012/are-lice...
Ok, that's cool.
> to be able ... run of Minio ...
What's Minio?
> ... irrevocability ... license-entrapment ... is what you'd like to do ...
Hahaha! You are making some provocative accusations there. You really believe they are true?
Looks like you are a bully who maybe needs validation of an angry answer, but you probably just innocently misinterpreting, right?
The situation is: I want people to use the product. We don't care to litigate them. There's no business model in that.