dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoFor-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without creditwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1983arrow-down14
arrow-up1979arrow-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 days agomessage-square70fedilink
minus-squarerustydrd@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29arrow-down7·4 days agoIsn’t that illegal? What kind of license is uBO under?
minus-squaresushibowl@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up61arrow-down1·edit-24 days agoThe very first sentence of the article answers these exact two questions.
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51·4 days 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