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[–] 54 points 2 years ago (7 children)

If I'm reading this correctly, the headline is...very inaccurate.

It looks like a dispute between two developers in Organic Maps, who both started out at Maps.me, specifically over whether their CDN redirector should be public or private.

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    It's one of the reasons I linked the hn discussion. Lots of accusations going around right now. It's unfortunate as I like that app, but this kind of splitting is important to know about.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    My experience with HN is comments from out-of-touch engineers and me-too startup folks circle jerking with themselves. Can't say they're any better than the random discourse on social media.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    Yea, the comments there are just, wrong.

    People claiming since the repo wasn't public the MIT license didn't matter. But since admins contributed under that license, it 100% matters.

    No reason to wait for the dust to settle. Roman noticed a removal of an MIT license he contributed to, also noticed the inclusion of user logging, so he released MIT work he contributed to. He's in the right.

    It's a shame.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    So, what's the point of Organic Maps or maps.me? The latter's website just say "download and prepare for adventure", like some sort of app for route preparation?

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sad, but also funny to see someone revoke an MIT license. Presumably they think that is retroactive as why do it otherwise. Instead of preventing use they just un-invite themselves from any group that wishes to continue it's open source development.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Wow, that's an incredible misunderstanding of copyright. Screw 'em.

    Organic Maps rocks. Maybe I'll go donate.

    Edit: Read a bit of the discussion and it seems this is 100% Organic Maps, Maps.me is unrelated. I'll hold off until the drama revolves.

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  • Seems like some spicy drama. I'll check back in a few days to see how it resolves. I love Organic Maps and I hope the core team resolves this appropriately.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    I used maps.me for many years, it's sad what happened. At least we have organic maps.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Sometimes I wish lemmy/fediverse had an option to detect if something was on the fedi and give you the option to direct link. Would make it nicer to vote/follow.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Much like the other user, the instance link works for me and keeps me local, but the lemmy verse link takes me to that instance.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*