![]() ![]() In my opinion, even if with some idiosyncracies, you have adhered to the spirit of the license and Tobin & Co are not operating in good faith. AFAIK you've never made any attempts to hide the source code, because even before, when you only distributed your patches, the main source was always available ( a patch without what to patch would be nonsensical indeed! ), and contrary to what (IIRC) Tobin has claimed in the past, the license doesn't actually say you have to provide/host your own copy of the source. The MPL 2.0 states " You must inform recipients of the Executable Form how they can obtain a copy of such Source Code Form by reasonable means in a timely manner", which I think ultimately doesn't preclude informing people post facto, once asked. ![]() For my tastes, Tobin's way is actually further from the spirit of open-source than having the source freely available to anyone 24/7, even if there aren't very specific instructions on how to get it (like I said before, I personally was able to get it pretty easily). The inconvenience (for those who can't figure it out) of having to ask you how to get your source code is no bigger than having to email Tobin to get his source. I suppose they could try to get Github to throw you out by filing a DMCA claim, but you could then file a counter claim and they'd still have to go to court to get their way. In my opinion their interpretation of the license means very little without actually litigating the whole thing. The MPL 2.0 states " Any litigation relating to this License may be brought only in the courts of a jurisdiction where the defendant maintains its principal place of business and such litigation shall be governed by laws of that jurisdiction" (underlined emphasis by me). IANAL, so I can't tell you with certainty what rights they have or don't have, especially since they're trying to export US law into Ukraine (assumption based on your profile flag). What can they do next - do others and moonchild himself have right to demand remove their code property or else? So if he take even moochild code he does not have the right to demand for remove this code, right? But let we assume i removed lines of code what is his property. ![]()
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