Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by b1naryth1ef 3343 days ago
(Discord Dev here)

Hey Alex, this definitely sounds like a miss on our part, so apologies.

As you know, we're fans of uws and not including the original license was a screw-up in our automation. We're working on fixing it and immediately releasing it with the proper license. I've also asked support to follow up with you directly in case there are further issues.

For the contact, either opening an issue on one of our repos or emailing our legal team (abuse@discordapp.com) would have been guaranteed to get you an accurate response. Unfortunately the verbiage you used in the email is very similar to that used in other support tickets we get for our API, and our team (as they did in your case) forwards users on to our API chat which can provide more in-depth/advanced support.

2 comments

It's nice to see you've reached out to Alex publicly.

Any time someone or an organization brings in someone else's code and makes use of it, no matter what the license we really need to recognize that, it's just the morally responsible thing to do.

As far as ourselves, we're definitely using uWS and that is not going to go without recognition.

Nobody should need to "open a ticket", send an email or post on HN to get that sorted.

npm install and git clone making it way too easy for people not to give a crap about the works of others.

Good to see you guys are doing the right thing, uWS is a serious piece of tech and well worth recognition.

Well what can I say, I'm passionate and I don't like it when people ignore me. Thanks for the quick resolution.