Rimu recently started a new rant thread. I copied the response of the person they had targeted and in less than a minute Rimu had deleted the comment.
This is the comment Rimu did not want people being able to see: https://feddit.uk/post/53824748/26875911
This is the thread I shared it on: https://feddit.uk/post/53824747
MrKaplan does seem like the most level headed person in this from the little bit that I’ve read, but that doesn’t make him the AGPL police.
On the topic of “should the comment have been deleted”, I still see it as BPR. The overall tone wasn’t in good faith, combined with previous beefs. You can’t be surprised that the comment was deleted.
a BPR on a post Rimu lied in to gether sympathy from idiots. we don’t need to be level-headed, we didn’t start this fight and we aren’t the ones who keep dragging the drama back up. we’re not the narcissistic loser who can’t stand that he isn’t in control of his little fiefdom anymore or that people aren’t fawning over him like he demands. we also aren’t the ones who purged our communities of everyone who didn’t pass a Trump-style loyalty test.
Rimu can get fucked. PyLova is now beyond his control, headed for a hard fork, and has more features and better security than Piefed ever did or ever will. and since he’s pulling this shit, I’m considering rewriting the entire thing from scratch so we can use a license that requires attribution. so that the next time he uses patches we wrote to fix his shoddy code, he has to prominently display attribution to us since I know that will piss him off to no end.
You don’t need all that. Just put a blurb for copyrights and license in each file, then it’s against the licence to remove it.
From what I’ve heard from others around here, attribution is required with AGPL as long as the author puts a copyright in somehow. Beyond that I’m clueless, but this whole thing seems like people got really worked up over their own mistake. Lesson learned, I guess.