• Captain Beyond@linkage.ds8.zone
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    7 months ago

    They do say that

    They will be using a different repository with a different license for some of its new features

    “different license” suggests to me it might be a proprietary/fauxpen source licene, since this is explicitly being done to punish a fork.

    • Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org
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      7 months ago

      It may be. The person saying that has contributed artwork but is not the maintainer. It is a bad look though. It sounds like they want to build the next release in secret so the fork can’t release features first.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah. The maintainer said in their blog post they’re looking for a license that lets people read the code but not fork it. Isn’t that just standard American copyright?

      Edit: Looks like they went with CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Deed (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International). So not an open source license and one that CC themselves recommends not using for software.