There is a health app that is very important to sufferers of a specific disease and it is freemium and I find this detestable. I am doing a clean room rewrite of it in its entirety and plan to release it on fdroid. Is there a license that prevents some ghoul from forking it to profit from people’s misfortunes? I am trying to avoid legal issues by being clean room but will try to keep my publishing of the app as anonymous as possible regardless. Thanks
There isn’t one, for multiple reasons.
First of all, as @vagrancyand already mentioned, the restrictions you want violate the rules of Open Source (or Free Software, for that matter).
Second, there is no such thing as a “clean room decompilation.” That’s still a derivative work of the closed-source thing you’re “decompiling,” which means it’s just copyright infringement with extra steps. You don’t have the right to relicense it in the first place.
Using AI to “free” proprietary software may look like a popular thing to do right now because tech moves faster than the lawyers do, but all these projects are going to get sued out of existence sooner or later.
I do like copyright infringement
Sure, fuck copyright. But you said you were trying to avoid legal issues, so the only responsible advice is “don’t do what you’re thinking of doing.”
Hey there is always some legal wizardry for rich people maybe there is one for being a good person
Not unless you also have a lot of money.
Which usually means the “good person” part doesn’t apply, anyway.
LOL, good one!