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communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 days agoI don’t see how, it’s covered by a good license, and if it did it’d be forked in an instant. Can you give a historical example?
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communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 days agoI don’t see how, it’s covered by a good license, and if it did it’d be forked in an instant. Can you give a historical example?
HereIAm@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I guess the closest I know of is Maps.me and Organic Maps? Maps.me was open source, but got purchased and enshittified, so Organic Maps was forked from it. And now there is some drama with the Organic Maps shareholders/co-founders, so unless that is (or has it already been?) sorted out we’re likely to see another fork of it.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t the main dev(s) members of lemmy.ml? So I can certainly see how differing political views could skew the development of the main branch of Lemmy.
farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
The organic maps founders seem to have convinced the volunteers that a private company would be best to manage an open source project. The community got duped hard.
HereIAm@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I agree. And luckily for Lemmy and all other FOSS projects the worst that can happen is a fork of the project is created with a potentially fractured community.
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 days ago
That’s a bad example because it got forked and it wasn’t an actual problem?
People say this all the time but never can give even one example of a potential problem. Forking sounds insane to me.
HereIAm@lemmy.world 3 days ago
But that’s exactly what I said in the beginning. The worst that can happen is the original creators take the project in an undesired direction so a fork is created.