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by dljsjr 4336 days ago
Atlassian is very OSS friendly and provides unlimited user open source licenses for all of their products: https://www.atlassian.com/opensource/overview

EDIT: That is to say, they provide a special unlimited license for all of their products to OSS projects.
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shitlord 4336 days ago
Isn't Atlassian afraid of getting sued, though? It seems like a HUGE risk to take on a project like Popcorn Time. Then again, Atlassian makes millions of dollars annually.
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dljsjr 4336 days ago
The open source license is for self hosting, not OnDemand, so I'm not sure if there are really licensing implications there or not. Does an OSS license equate to an endorsement in a legal sense? I don't seem them generating a lot of ill-will from a PR stance.
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slang800 4336 days ago
I would actually think that providing hosting to Popcorn Time would be positive PR: people who contribute to Popcorn Time would spend the most time interacting with Stash and are unlikely to be morally opposed to Popcorn Time. While people who are opposed to Popcorn Time are much less likely to check what Popcorn Time's repo is being hosted on or who gave them a license... Basically, Atlassian's generosity would only be noticed by Popcorn Time supporters.

That being said, I'd still much rather see Popcorn Time hosted on an open-source platform like Gitlab.

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