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This AI Startup "Copied" an Open-Source Project and Got Half a Million Dollar Funding by Y Combinator (news.itsfoss.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If its forked from a Foss project then its necessarily a Foss project. That's why we use Foss licenses.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Vscode is released under a MIT license and the Continue extension is released under Apache. Neither is copyleft, so the forked codebase doesn't need to be open source

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Ah you're right. Blame Vscode for using MIT. Maybe now is a good time to tell them to change it to GPL, so this can't happen again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Right, exactly, which is why they launched with a FOSS license. Oh, wait--

Imagine the money going to VSCode which actually is the one getting contributions

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you're upset, just ask them for the source. If they don't respond, sue.

In any case, we're all going to get the source and we'll all benefit from this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The source is literally just VSCode with a different label. What benefit does that have?