This is my first open source project, apart from tiny bits of code that no one ever paid any attention to. Maybe I don’t know how to do open source properly, maybe I made a mistake here. Let’s find out.
This is my first open source project, apart from tiny bits of code that no one ever paid any attention to. Maybe I don’t know how to do open source properly, maybe I made a mistake here. Let’s find out.
@rimu@piefed.social, I think from a legal and etiquette standpoint, you were absolutely in the right and the team’s reaction seems odd at best. There is the idiom, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you,” and I think they had open source forks in mind when they settled on it.
I do wonder though, if from a pure marketing perspective you messaged these guys to convey your admiration of their work. You seemed impressed and they possibly would have liked hearing from you.
To a lot of us Piefed people, Rimu is a Sky Divinity that resides on Mount Pylimpus. We like you particularly because you don’t behave like it, so maybe you don’t realize yet how much clout you have.
No I couldn’t contact them because there had already been so much abuse from them before that, so I’d resolved never to expose myself to them again.
The basic level of trust required to communicate was gone - https://join.piefed.social/2026/08/14/open-source-runs-on-good-faith/
In that situation even copying their code was enough to get them all started up again. I really regret that interaction because it gave them another excuse to stir up trouble.
I meant before you merged their changes.