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Getting Forked by Microsoft (philiplaine.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] corsicanguppy 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We do not code open source software to get rich. We do not retain sole ownership of forks.

We code software because we want to. We license it to allow forking and/or improvements because we want that.

We are not owed anything.

Change the license if you want. Or don't. You don't need to tell us why.

\years coding a security tool, and it was my last project to pass onward.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Humbly, you're wrong; quoting from the article (emphasis mine):

Spegel was published with an MIT license. Software released under an MIT license allows for forking and modifications, without any requirement to contribute these changes back. I default to using the MIT license as it is simple and permissive. The license does not allow removing the original license and purport that the code was created by someone else. It looks as if large parts of the project were copied directly from Spegel without any mention of the original source.

So the author is firstly complaining about the lack of any mentions of the original source (Spegel) in the fork, which is not just a kind thing to do but a legal requirement of the MIT license under which the original source is forked/copied.

If large corporations, in this case Microsoft, are not going to respect the terms of your license in the first place then you don't have much leverage even if you use AGPLv3, a license with much stricter terms.