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My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

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Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

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Post by anonym29 »

nhinck3 wrote: post #202
aleph_minus_one wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Basic license management incl. library vetting is part of it. This depends on whether you consider Compliance to be part of software engineering or a separate discipline. At least in most companies the compliance department is different from the software development/IT department, because the necessary skills are very different and barely transfer.

I mean it's basic human ethics, but I guess we are in an era where taking everything is fair game.

Welcome to human nature. We are a species that pathologically wants what we do not have, and often neglects to practice the golden rule.

Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

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Post by ignoramous »

thiht wrote: post #201
pghatedphones wrote: post #153

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Isn't YC supposed to offer guidance and sage advice, not just be a cash machine for naive young developers?

They're also supposed to do their due diligence before investing.

Paul Graham once wrote that startups are pretty hard to game unlike academia for top grades or a big company for promotions.

In a twist of fate, YC itself seems to be gamed like those broken companies.

  So this is the third counterintuitive thing to remember about startups: starting a startup is where gaming the system stops working. Gaming the system may continue to work if you go to work for a big company. Depending on how broken the company is, you can succeed by sucking up to the right people, giving the impression of productivity, and so on.
https://www.paulgraham.com/before.html / https://archive.vn/UKky8

Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

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Post by aleph_minus_one »

RobotToaster wrote: post #206
Disposal8433 wrote: post #75

And it has the same fake excuse as usual "Since this was our first OSS project, we didn’t realize at first." He sure discovered this new open source thing and it's very confusing. It's not like it's almost 40 years old at that point. I'll never understand people who lie like toddlers.

It's funny these "founders" only use this hollow excuse with open source licensing, you never see "since this was my first company, we didn't realize taxes exist"

> you never see "since this was my first company, we didn't realize taxes exist"

Taxes are a nitpicky example, but indeed in Germany where everything is full of regulations and red tape that only some bureaucrats understand, there indeed exist founders who argue this way for these convoluted laws:

For example have a look at the popular videos of the following channel (in German): https://www.youtube.com/@Nordwolle/videos

Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

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Post by aleph_minus_one »

anonym29 wrote: post #211
nhinck3 wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean it's basic human ethics, but I guess we are in an era where taking everything is fair game.

Welcome to human nature. We are a species that pathologically wants what we do not have, and often neglects to practice the golden rule.

> often neglects to practice the golden rule

There exist people who are anti-copyright, which has the implications that such people are (by the golden rule) also basically fine with having their works copied.

Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

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Post by wordofx »

pghatedphones wrote: post #153
h4ck_th3_pl4n3t wrote: post #131

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This incompetence excuse puts YC in a bad spotlight too, because it makes them look like they are funding people with exact zero software development experience.

Isn't YC supposed to offer guidance and sage advice, not just be a cash machine for naive young developers?

No. YC just throws money at the wall and sees what sticks. They fund some trash, and trash people.

Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

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Post by oefrha »

Mashimo wrote: post #205
oefrha wrote: post #112

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Hiding the entire history of this incident[1] behind a force push[2] to make it seem as if credit was given and proper license was chosen from the start really displays a lack of integrity, and tells me it’s definitely malicious (which should be quite clear from zero mention of the original project to begin with, but this act reinforces that) rather an inadvertent screwup. [1] https://github.com/pickle-com/glass/comm…

A few weeks ago people on here where mad at a company (Microsoft?) for NOT force pushing the corrected credit of a source code. You just can't win.

A good lesson that you should NOT do shady shit?

Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

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Post by sohzm »

dheerajvs wrote: post #173
npsomaratna wrote: post #21

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Not the developer, but here is his repo: https://github.com/sohzm/cheating-daddy

As an interviewer, I'm seeing a huge increase in proportion of candidates cheating surreptitiously during video interviews. And it's becoming difficult to suspect any wrong-doing unless you're very watchful by looking for academic responses to questions. Why would anyone encourage building such a tool, I can't fathom.

there was already a paid and closed source application, i didnt create anything new
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