From today the license applied to the project will be the Apache 2.0 license with an extra line forbidding usage of the codebase as an integration or app to Atlassian's Confluence or Jira products....
“This is why we can’t have nice things.”
The license change sucks but makes total sense.
I guess Dave Kinne there fucked around and found out, to the detriment of everyone.
As usual, the unresolved underlying issue is, how to get funding for FLOSS projects. Entitled cheapskates are nothing new; a generic solution to the issue, would be something new.
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“This is why we can’t have nice things.” The license change sucks but makes total sense. I guess Dave Kinne there fucked around and found out, to the detriment of everyone.
Who is David Kinne and what did he do?
He did THIS
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/users/70121%3A1ccab27d-4147-479d-98fe-598695691aca
what a dirtbag
As usual, the unresolved underlying issue is, how to get funding for FLOSS projects. Entitled cheapskates are nothing new; a generic solution to the issue, would be something new.
So they never got contribution from anyone else or is Apache not really copyleft?
Apache isn’t copyleft, not sure why you thought it was
lol; Thanks Dave Kinne! /s
Note: This is from August. So it’s been a while since then.