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by carussell 3633 days ago
> The primary author of RhodeCode formed a company, RhodeCode GmbH [...] The company announced a license change and added a 20-user maximum into the Python code for RhodeCode. That led to complaints, threats, and ultimately a patch to remove the 20-user restriction. The company then threatened the author of that patch. [...]

> The company claimed to have 100% of the copyright in RhodeCode, even though patches had been accepted from others

https://lwn.net/Articles/609709/
1 comments
dmitry-k 3633 days ago
That's not true. Some parts (e.g. CSS and images) never were open source.

You can read more about why RhodeCode went back to open source (AGPL) here: https://rhodecode.com/blog/113/rhodecode-goes-open-source

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carussell 3633 days ago
> That's not true.

You're going to need to be more specific than that.

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