| > One thing I am not sure is why such a radical action was taken so quickly without thinking carefully first? I think this can be answered by considering the following: > At least that's how we'd (try to) handle it on our project under Eclipse Foundation… Looking at https://github.com/minad/mimemagic, I did not get the impression that the software was backed by any organization, let alone one on the scale of the Eclipse Foundation. If indeed the software is essentially one person, imagine it from their perspective. > Anyway, talking to people first before doing something quickly is often a good idea. Assuming that this was not intentional (see Hanlon's razor), you could quickly have groups like the gpl-violations.org project taking notice, and things snowballing from there. I'm not calling out gpl-violations.org specifically here, instead I'm noting that there are other people who _would_ do something quickly. Another thing to note is that u/minad is (per their GitHub profile) in Germany. That will also affect their opinion on things related to licensing. |