I’m a little bit in the camp of ‘it might be legal, but that doesn’t mean it is ok’. So I get why people are annoyed. Also copying a whole project and then slamming a different license on it and going ‘jobs done’ very much fits the promptfondler vibe, so im not mad, more of a ‘lol, of course they did’ thing. But that is me.
Apache explicitly allows this. I don’t get why OSI bros are endlessly surprised by this.
They apparently copied without attribution in a manner that was a violation? I’m still looking for precise wording of the PEL.
It’s very hard to violate the Apache license, but these are the sort of bozos who could manage it.
EDIT: Here is the PEL. It lacks the attribution requirements of section 4 of the Apache Licence 2.0. So yeah, they managed it.
This is a small technical violation that’s easily remedied, but I understand that’s what got people pissed off.
I’m a little bit in the camp of ‘it might be legal, but that doesn’t mean it is ok’. So I get why people are annoyed. Also copying a whole project and then slamming a different license on it and going ‘jobs done’ very much fits the promptfondler vibe, so im not mad, more of a ‘lol, of course they did’ thing. But that is me.
It’s a little illegal and a lot christ what assholes
Yeah, pretty bad coverage of that by the article.
Apache isn’t GPL, and it isn’t an oversight that it allows closed source derivative works.