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AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
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Re: AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
#42There are some replies in this thread that misunderstood the content of Tim Nolet's twitter post. (Probably because the short headline has pitchfork raising overtones.)
- He's not complaining that Amazon forked his code with Apache license. He admits he also uses other open source with permissive licenses
- He just thought it would be nice/courteous/polite/etc if Amazon acknowledge/recognized/credited/mentioned/thanked his original project that they forked from.
The twitter reply of "user facing open source should have been AGPL" and replies in this thread of "you used the wrong license" don't really cover it.
In other words, I'm not aware of a permissive license that's the same as BSD/Apache with the only difference in that also says "use it as you wish but you must mention my name when you're a commercial enterprise making a splashy product announcement".
Re: AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
#43To be fair, in a follow up tweet he says, "...I'm not mad, that would be hypocritical..."
He knows that Amazon are playing within the rules.
Re: AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
#44There are some replies in this thread that misunderstood the content of Tim Nolet's twitter post. (Probably because the short headline has pitchfork raising overtones.) - He's not complaining that Amazon forked his code with Apache license. He admits he also uses other open source with permissive licenses - He just thought it would be nice/courteous/polite/etc if Amazon acknowledge/recognized/credited/mentioned/thank…
...you can just add a clause
E:
who downvoted this, care to explain? have you ever eard of the jslint license? you can add the fuck you want to one's software terms
Re: AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
#45If you don't like the terms of the license for software you released maybe you should have chosen a different one.
OP here. You are 100% right. But it's more about the spirit than the letter here. My company heavily depends on OS from some great projects: we make money based on other people's hard work too. Just a short "shout out" would have been nice. We do that with many open source projects, or we sponsor them. And we are a tiny tiny company.
I agree with you, but Amazon hasn't reached $1.6T market cap by being "nice".
(edit: corrected amount, thx jimhi).
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Re: AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
#47There are some replies in this thread that misunderstood the content of Tim Nolet's twitter post. (Probably because the short headline has pitchfork raising overtones.) - He's not complaining that Amazon forked his code with Apache license. He admits he also uses other open source with permissive licenses - He just thought it would be nice/courteous/polite/etc if Amazon acknowledge/recognized/credited/mentioned/thank…
> when you're a commercial enterprise making a splashy product announcement"
Ah yes, this ironclad legalese.
Re: AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
#48Could everyone take a moment here and reflect on their hostile attitude towards an open source author who just wants to be treated fairly (in a moral sense)?
My guess is that none of the people who are lecturing and gloating have ever written anything substantial. Shame on you.
Re: AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
#49There are some replies in this thread that misunderstood the content of Tim Nolet's twitter post. (Probably because the short headline has pitchfork raising overtones.) - He's not complaining that Amazon forked his code with Apache license. He admits he also uses other open source with permissive licenses - He just thought it would be nice/courteous/polite/etc if Amazon acknowledge/recognized/credited/mentioned/thank…
...you can just add a clause E: who downvoted this, care to explain? have you ever eard of the jslint license? you can add the fuck you want to one's software terms
Just like they could have added the owner's name.
Re: AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
#50Are there open source licenses that specifically ban major cloud providers from using software and letting others use it on Apache 2 terms? Specially license tailored against every one of them, by name?
It won't take long until OSI heads come in and tell you that sort of licensing isn't "Open Source" (a commonly used term they bogusly claim exclusive control over). Who's financing OSI again?