• RonSijm@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    It’s not really a rug-pull in the usual sense though - of “all of a sudden you cannot use this product anymore”

    You can still use it up to the commit where they changed the license. And then people just make a fork from there and the community moves away from the initial project to the fork

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      6 months ago

      exactly. Forking for any reason is the essence of FOSS.

      Scenarios like OPs were taken care of right from the start. That’s just the legal side, tho. But someone still needs to do the actual work which is why it sometimes fails.