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Reading the commentary, this guy seems unhinged. He thinks he owns literal hex codes he sucks at tech and has driven away everyone good at it. I don't use his software, but I hope he gets out of this episode soon (and learns he didn't invent material!)
Pantone would like a word.
Reading the commentary, this guy seems unhinged. He thinks he owns literal hex codes he sucks at tech and has driven away everyone good at it. I don't use his software, but I hope he gets out of this episode soon (and learns he didn't invent material!)
> He thinks he owns literal hex codes Pantone would like a word.
Someone uploaded a replacement, Material Theme (But I Won't Sue You) https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=t3dotgg....
The original author seemed to talk a lot about funding development/maintenance, so I got curious about what the hell needs to be maintained. I cloned the https://github.com/t3dotgg/vsc-material-but-i-wont-sue-you repo and had a look. Here's a LoC summary: =============================================================================== Language Files Lines Code Comments Blanks ==========================================…
What's wrong is the bait and switch, as these projects end up being popular because of their FOSS nature.
Another creator gone off the deep end apparently? > reading the review responses by the creator, I don't really trust it anymore. Being rude to others who are concerned over the recent move to closed-source (and without warning!) is pretty disheartening. > So, uh, the guy who made the VS Code Material Theme is threatening everyone who uses it in their products. He seems to have forgotten it was originally licensed un…
The old commit history can still be accessed here: https://github.com/material-theme/vsc-material-theme/activit...
Another creator gone off the deep end apparently? > reading the review responses by the creator, I don't really trust it anymore. Being rude to others who are concerned over the recent move to closed-source (and without warning!) is pretty disheartening. > So, uh, the guy who made the VS Code Material Theme is threatening everyone who uses it in their products. He seems to have forgotten it was originally licensed un…
Question bouncing around in my mind reading this, especially with money involved, is why did this not cross the line into criminal fraud?
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Speaking generally: It’s assumed that your contribution will be licensed with the current license (generally). Maintainers can change the license but that wouldn’t affect prior contributions. Basically anything up to that license change would still have the original license. This is what makes forks possible when popular software changes their license. In order to go back in history and change a license, you need eit…
My understanding is that permissive licenses (BSD,MIT) can generally be relicensed. For example you can fork a MIT project under GPL. But to do the same for a GPL project requires agreeement from all copyright owners, or just you if you made everyone sign a CLA. This is the whole point of GPL.
You can incorporate MIT/BSD code in a proprietary project, but that imported code itself remains BSD/MIT licensed. For many projects, this is a technicality, but no, you can't claim copyright on MIT/BSD code that isn't yours.
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> He thinks he owns literal hex codes Pantone would like a word.
Pantone is a lot more than hex codes, it's a whole system of material science for colors.
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So many people who are otherwise functional in society, for whatever reason just can't play well with others when it comes to online communication. This can be true for both software maintainers and users. People can't just leave their emotions at the door and file a bug report or respond to a help request, without including a little personal jab or passive aggressive snipe. Looking at some of those replies to users,…
People say that the most part of communication is nonverbal. If that's true, written communication would be heavily impaired by the lacking of all the visual cues that we use to interpret someone's words. I tend to agree with them, but that's just my personal experience.
No, I counter that the real problem is that some people are either incredibly bad at communicating their real intent, or incredibly good at communicating their inner asshole nature.