Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-licensed code #1040

Closed
christianbundy opened this issue Oct 31, 2020 · 1 comment
Closed

Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-licensed code #1040

christianbundy opened this issue Oct 31, 2020 · 1 comment

Comments

@christianbundy
Copy link

I've downloaded the source code from your Firefox extension and it's easy to verify that it uses the same code from master with small changes. I've included a zipfile of the extension here: octotree.zip

@buunguyen Four days ago you made this claim:

The closed source version was a complete rewrite of Octotree.

Could you please clarify what you meant by "complete rewrite"?

cc: @Powersource

@christianbundy christianbundy changed the title Firefox extension contains AGPL-licensed code Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-licensed code Oct 31, 2020
@ovity ovity deleted a comment from christianbundy Oct 31, 2020
@ovity ovity deleted a comment from christianbundy Oct 31, 2020
@ovity ovity deleted a comment from christianbundy Oct 31, 2020
@ovity ovity deleted a comment from zacanger Oct 31, 2020
@buunguyen
Copy link
Collaborator

buunguyen commented Oct 31, 2020

@zacanger

I built and made Octotree free for 5 years. It was mostly a thankless job but it was okay, until I couldn't do it all by myself and started paying developers to help. That was even before I charged for Octotree. The majority of commits to Octotree were done by me and the developers I hired.

I have been trolled for a long time since I started charging for Octotree. On GitHub, Twitter, Reddit and others. I didn't want to change the old source from AGPL to unlicensed but you see, that's the reason I have been trolled for this week. Enough is enough. Whether you perceive it "cool" or "uncool", I don't care.

@christianbundy

it's easy to verify that it uses the same code from master with small changes

This is simply not true. If it was true, just use the code from master and make the "small changes" yourself and stop with the spams.

Bottom line on the topic of open-sourcing:

  • The old source code in master is no longer under AGPL because it's been the reason of this week's trolling comments
  • The closed source version will remain closed and we will won't be harassed into open-sourcing it

Open-sourced or not, Octotree will remain free forever. If anyone finds it useful, please subscribe to the Pro plan to support the continuous development effort of 4 fellow developers. If you can't, that's okay, just please don't make life harder for us. Thank you.

@ovity ovity locked as spam and limited conversation to collaborators Oct 31, 2020
@ovity ovity deleted a comment from zacanger Oct 31, 2020
Sign up for free to subscribe to this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in.
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

2 participants