{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jakimfett/Minechem/issues/806","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jakimfett/Minechem/issues/806/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jakimfett/Minechem/issues/806/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jakimfett/Minechem/issues/806/events","html_url":"https://github.com/jakimfett/Minechem/issues/806","id":117901833,"number":806,"title":"Illegal code relicensing?","user":{"login":"Rukachan","id":15013496,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/15013496?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Rukachan","html_url":"https://github.com/Rukachan","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Rukachan/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Rukachan/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Rukachan/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Rukachan/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Rukachan/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Rukachan/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Rukachan/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Rukachan/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Rukachan/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-11-19T20:32:39Z","updated_at":"2015-11-20T22:45:17Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Between August 7 and August 8 of 2014 the license of this mod was silently (as you can see from the commit titles) changed into a non-FOSS license called as \"Don't Be a Jerk\" (https://github.com/jakimfett/DBaJ)\r\nHere are the commits that changed the license:\r\nhttps://github.com/jakimfett/Minechem/commit/3119c271fe0f729df7521f1f834051cae90382ac\r\nhttps://github.com/jakimfett/Minechem/commit/5c33baafcf7f3242e429ef7b14d10f234f206cf1\r\nhttps://github.com/jakimfett/Minechem/commit/a3042cfff0878f7763e5a9b6704f689657a20bf6\r\n\r\nYet, the license of this mod used to be http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ (a FOSS, copyleft, as you can see, license, meaning that while you are free to modify, run and (re)distribute this project, yet you are not able to change the license of it or any programs based on it), introduced at https://github.com/perky/Minechem/commit/c70592c7f3890aea4582b42ea06941eac7181a70.\r\nI have noticed no kind of CLA singing (thus the contributors keep their copyright), nor I have seen anything similar to https://github.com/BuildCraft/BuildCraft/issues/3004, making the change of the license illegal (assuming that there is not anything that I am missing, please feel free to correct me).\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jakimfett/Minechem/issues/comments/158547463","html_url":"https://github.com/jakimfett/Minechem/issues/806#issuecomment-158547463","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jakimfett/Minechem/issues/806","id":158547463,"user":{"login":"jakimfett","id":2565176,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2565176?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett","html_url":"https://github.com/jakimfett","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jakimfett/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-11-20T22:45:17Z","updated_at":"2015-11-20T22:45:17Z","body":"Nice [sock puppet](https://github.com/projectilemotion) you've got there. Good job on finding a new way to [get](https://github.com/jakimfett/MMPLv2/issues/28#issuecomment-158227729) [rekt](https://github.com/jakimfett/MMPLv2/issues/28#issuecomment-158252661) on licensing issues.\r\n\r\nAll sarcasm aside, please go re-read the commits you linked, as it very clearly says \"Minechem 5.0.5 and higher\" (eg new code that I'm writing and releasing) is licensed under the new license. \r\n\r\nThat said, I did spend time tracking down contributors and previous authors to make sure I had permission. Once I had permission, I changed the license. I should probably update the wording to reflect that.\r\n\r\nI could probably make it a bit more official by posting all the \"permission granted\" messages, but that'd take time and effort, and the only people who seem to care are \"OSI Open Source\" fanatics, so..."}}