dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoFor-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without creditwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1896arrow-down14cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1892arrow-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 · 6 days agomessage-square61fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-squarerustydrd@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down6·6 days agoIsn’t that illegal? What kind of license is uBO under?
minus-squaresushibowl@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up53arrow-down1·edit-26 days agoThe very first sentence of the article answers these exact two questions.
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up47·6 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.