RobotToaster@mander.xyz to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 3 months agoThis AI Startup "Copied" an Open-Source Project and Got Half a Million Dollar Funding by Y Combinatornews.itsfoss.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThis AI Startup "Copied" an Open-Source Project and Got Half a Million Dollar Funding by Y Combinatornews.itsfoss.comRobotToaster@mander.xyz to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 3 months agomessage-square7fedilink
minus-squaredelirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·3 months agoIf its forked from a Foss project then its necessarily a Foss project. That’s why we use Foss licenses.
minus-squarealt_xa_23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoVscode is released under a MIT license and the Continue extension is released under Apache. Neither is copyleft, so the forked codebase doesn’t need to be open source
minus-squaredelirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·3 months agoAh you’re right. Blame Vscode for using MIT. Maybe now is a good time to tell them to change it to GPL, so this can’t happen again.
If its forked from a Foss project then its necessarily a Foss project. That’s why we use Foss licenses.
Vscode is released under a MIT license and the Continue extension is released under Apache. Neither is copyleft, so the forked codebase doesn’t need to be open source
Ah you’re right. Blame Vscode for using MIT. Maybe now is a good time to tell them to change it to GPL, so this can’t happen again.