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[–] delirious_owl -4 points 1 month ago (7 children)

How is it boot licking to get money from rich people to develop open source software?

Lemmy is FOSS that was funded by a grant from NLNet. Its the same outcome as this.

If anyone is licking boots, its the rich people licking the FOSS boots

[–] nek0d3r@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Except this isn't money going to a FOSS project, it's money to some guys whose only keyboard is StackOverflow's The Key.

[–] delirious_owl 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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

[–] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month 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

[–] delirious_owl 0 points 1 month 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.

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