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by openoi 2558 days ago
Open source is about transparency, which covertly tweaking the wording of a thread is not.

Yet since this issue got some more attention user "mholt" has changed the thread, now merely strongly claiming it were open source but not actually publishing or referring to the closed source portions, unable to confirm there were none and it were something innocuous like a backport from Go 1.13.

Nonetheless a use of force, him keeping the right to develop the discussion further to himself but denying the same to others.

Does Caddy run afould a LGPL? Is it about this? If you cannot bear sharing and the question "how did you solve this?", then don't claim to be an open source author.