▲ 1005 ▼ For-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without credit (www.theregister.com) submitted 2 years ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 72 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 years ago (3 children) Isn't that illegal? What kind of license is uBO under? permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 60 points 2 years ago* (1 child) The very first sentence of the article answers these exact two questions. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 51 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 years ago GPLv3 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 60 points 2 years ago* (1 child) The very first sentence of the article answers these exact two questions. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 51 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 51 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent