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by angus-prune 1791 days ago
The author blogged about it in 2009 [1]

TL;DR They used a MIT licence and other people were selling broken, rebranded cashgrab copies without changing things like the installer or crash logs being sent to the author etc

[1] https://blog.getpaint.net/2009/11/06/a-new-license-for-paint...
1 comments
beerandt 1791 days ago
So why isn't this a problem for other open source software? Or is it? Is it only because of the high demand for a cheaper/free Photoshop alternative?
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david_allison 1791 days ago
It is.

It's more than frustrating to have crash logs that don't refer to your code and contain access tokens or similar data because the author of the 'rebranded' software doesn't care about user privacy.

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