dantheclamman to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agoFor-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without creditwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1996arrow-down15cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1991arrow-down1external-linkFor-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without creditwww.theregister.comdantheclamman to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square72fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-square@rustydrd@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish22•3 months agoIsn’t that illegal? What kind of license is uBO under?
minus-square@sushibowl@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglish60•edit-23 months agoThe very first sentence of the article answers these exact two questions.
minus-squareunalivejoylinkfedilinkEnglish51•3 months ago Closed-source browser extension Pie Adblock was this week accused of copying code and text from rival uBlock Origin in violation of the latter’s software license – the GNU GPL version 3.
Isn’t that illegal? What kind of license is uBO under?
The very first sentence of the article answers these exact two questions.
GPLv3