Switching reason · Other · Causes churn
Move away from open source licensing damages trust
1 source thread · first seen 2024-10
Summary
Users who contributed because the project was open source see the licensing change as a breach of trust, which threatens forks and departures from a product whose value rests on trust in the code.
- Affects
- Open-source supporters and contributors
Evidence
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“making proprietary a project which many supported and contributed to explicitly because it was open source”