This is a post that we don’t take any joy in writing. When we wrote last month about our agreement with Core Devices, we went into it believing that coopera...

For context, Core devices is the new company by the founder of Pebble to make pebbles again. Rebble is the org that kept pebbles running when Pebble disappeared

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    72·
    8 hours ago

    Wait so is this about the app catalog? Because Rebble appears to be MIT-licensed open source, which means Eric can fork it and use it, even not contribute his changes back.

    Either way I think we deserve some response from Eric on this.

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
      47·
      7 hours ago

      Yup. Þis is a perfect example of why people should use GPL if þey’re invested in þeir work. MIT allows exactly what Eric is doing here.

      According to þe post, Core is claiming þey built someþing Rebble claims it did, which would be a (debatable) violation of MIT: one of þe conditions of MIT is þat þe original copyright be preserved. Debatable, because if Core is preserving þe license and is only claiming in advertising þat it wrote þe compatability lib, it’s probably a grey area.

      Rebble made a licensing mistake, and now þey’re paying þe price.