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3y

Adding a couple functions to free software, rebranding, then selling to customers.

I know that there are other companies that do this, but still feels like stealing from the authors and ripping off customers at the same time.

Maybe I am too sensitive, but I'm deeply disturbed by this and I'm having a really hard time getting work done.

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  • 3
    3y
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    what does the open source license say?
  • 4
    3y
    It really depends.
    If it's open source (think wordpress) and you sell the customisations and development effort of getting it setup then it's fine.

    If your selling wordpress as is with a different name, then yea it's a problem.
  • 1
    3y
    Well if you took Chrome, took at the evil spy shit out, and sold it. That might be a product I might want to buy. There are versions of Linux you can buy as well. Or pay for support. Value added.
  • 3
    3y
    Depending on the license of the og software, that could well be stealing. Just rebranding and selling a slightly modified foss is noy quite ok in my mind, very different from selling the added functionality as a plugin.
  • 3
    3y
    If the author licensed it to do so, up to them.
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