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Comment by neoromantique | Hacker News Reader

>After that wasn't enough and people kept pestering him

That's false? https://i.imgur.com/EFIfxRF.jpg

There was another issue that I believed to have come after the first, from the same user, complaining that he had some tracking/telemetry/whatever in there, which the author then closed, saying that the language clearly stated it was voluntary and with consent only. He additionally asked him to not bother him with issues about these kinds of technicalities.

If the order was reversed, you're right.

Said issue is indeed in the screenshot I provided, and it still is not "After that wasn't enough and people kept pestering him" as it was indeed a separate issue and not "a technicality".

Some people take their freedoms seriously and "Libre" version of the app mentioning tracking in ToS is a big no-no.

From what I can see the author just dismissed two valid (and separate) issues on the matter that he does not care about it, it's his right, but in no way it was "pestering" or "harassing".

I wouldn't call it harassment either, but it felt annoying to me (much like some other comments on that issue). People can and should take their freedoms seriously, they have the freedom to fork and make changes and publish those changes themselves and that's about it.

Beyond that, I think they should respect that no means no and not bother authors because they take themselves or their freedoms (too) seriously.

It's fine to be a zealot about FOSS, and to think the letter of the license is important. If you were personally insulted by someone calling people who complain about morality clauses being added to FOSS licenses zealots, you don't have to accept that as a description of yourself.

The person writing you free (as in beer) software is not hurting you, they are trying to help you in a way you don't completely approve of.

I am a zealot for FOSS licensing.

>If you were personally insulted

I'm fine, reason why I posted reply is because top comment called creating an issue on a public issue tracker "show[ing] up and harass[ing] the developer". Hence my reply that the only harassment(however mild) I saw was from the developer himself, as per his right, but it still goes against the comment I was replying to.

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