dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoFor-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without creditwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1882arrow-down14cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1878arrow-down1external-linkFor-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without creditwww.theregister.comdantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square25fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarerustydrd@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down6·4 months agoIsn’t that illegal? What kind of license is uBO under?
minus-squaresushibowl@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up52arrow-down1·edit-24 months agoThe very first sentence of the article answers these exact two questions.
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·4 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.