I think this is a person that has been driven to the absolute end of their patience. If he's really barely been getting by, then I can only imagine the sheer frustration he must be feeling. Not only are there swathes of fortune 500 companies which depend on his package but don't contribute a dime, but he also had a company with millions of dollars in funding look at his idea and then weaponize his own project to beat him to market.
Or to lock up his Github account for exercising his prerogative onto his own code?
His behaviour is unusual, but that, you know, could change easily. It could become the normal just like that. Puff.
Yes, certainly. I think this is sane because with OSS you can control it if you need to. Until then use what exists. It’s sane to use Linux in my project even though I don’t control that. I suppose it’s also sane to use Windows even though I don’t control that.
Brave man.
There we are.
"they can legally copy your Intellectual Property"
But let's be honest - if they hadn't copied his, they could have easily used the Ruby or Perl version. All he did was port a previous library.
faker.js was inspired by and has used data definitions from:
https://github.com/stympy/faker/ - Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Benjamin Curtis
http://search.cpan.org/~jasonk/Data-Faker-0.07/ - Copyright 2004-2005 by Jason KohlesIt’s a contentious topic, but last I heard people here tend to believe it isn’t (as long as it’s Google copying Oracle’s stuff)
- Copying an interface for the purpose of providing a compatible implementation (what Google allegedly did - although of course part of the debate is whether they also copied any of the implementation)
- Copying parts of the implementation, not for the purpose of compatibility (what faker.js did - in this case, copying constants)
The faker libraries are all that -- compilations of mostly non-copyrightable facts.
I'm not saying faker.js did no wrong, just saying if hypothetically a purported copyright owner sued him, they would have a really hard time proving substantial infringement happened given the available precedents.