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str4d 🛡️
@str4d
Agreed. Letter to someone about the copyright of their contributions? Sure, whatever, dispute it in civil. Letter to their university threatening legal action for personal-time contributions? That kind of behaviour is malicious.
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Filippo Valsorda
@FiloSottile
Wow, I'm late to this, but having a lawyer send a letter to a student's university to try to get them in trouble for open source contributions they made on their own time is very not ok. twitter.com/renlord1/statu…
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Daniel Micay
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For more context, this code was originally published by me under the Apache 2 license. Renlord ported my code to a newer version of Bionic libc. Copperhead is threatening him because they sell a product based on my work and are trying to retroactively claim ownership over it.
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Daniel Micay
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There was never copyright assignment of my work to that company and in fact there was explicit agreement to the contrary. However, even if the copyright had been assigned to them, they cannot take back that this was released as open source code. It's just baseless intimidation.
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Daniel Micay
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Meanwhile, they continue depending upon our open source work to build their closed source product, including work by Renlord and others that they've tried to intimidate. It really doesn't make any sense. They're taking our continued work on it while trying to stop it being made.
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