• @KelsonV
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    545 days ago

    If I’m reading this correctly, the headline is…very inaccurate.

    It looks like a dispute between two developers in Organic Maps, who both started out at Maps.me, specifically over whether their CDN redirector should be public or private.

    • mesamuneOP
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      175 days ago

      It’s one of the reasons I linked the hn discussion. Lots of accusations going around right now. It’s unfortunate as I like that app, but this kind of splitting is important to know about.

      • @[email protected]
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        My experience with HN is comments from out-of-touch engineers and me-too startup folks circle jerking with themselves. Can’t say they’re any better than the random discourse on social media.

        • fmstrat
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          Yea, the comments there are just, wrong.

          People claiming since the repo wasn’t public the MIT license didn’t matter. But since admins contributed under that license, it 100% matters.

          No reason to wait for the dust to settle. Roman noticed a removal of an MIT license he contributed to, also noticed the inclusion of user logging, so he released MIT work he contributed to. He’s in the right.

          It’s a shame.

      • I Cast Fist
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        14 days ago

        So, what’s the point of Organic Maps or maps.me? The latter’s website just say “download and prepare for adventure”, like some sort of app for route preparation?

        • oKtosiTe
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          34 days ago

          Where i live, Organic Maps has way better walking directions than Google and Apple Maps, and it’s a lot more respectful of privacy than at least the former.

    • @[email protected]
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      44 days ago

      Looks like the dispute is with one of the devs who didn’t work on maps.me.

      Regardless, it’s probably best to wait until the dust settles to see what the facts are.

  • @tabular
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    395 days ago

    Sad, but also funny to see someone revoke an MIT license. Presumably they think that is retroactive as why do it otherwise. Instead of preventing use they just un-invite themselves from any group that wishes to continue it’s open source development.

    • @[email protected]
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      Wow, that’s an incredible misunderstanding of copyright. Screw 'em.

      Organic Maps rocks. Maybe I’ll go donate.

      Edit: Read a bit of the discussion and it seems this is 100% Organic Maps, Maps.me is unrelated. I’ll hold off until the drama revolves.

  • @[email protected]
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    154 days ago

    Seems like some spicy drama. I’ll check back in a few days to see how it resolves. I love Organic Maps and I hope the core team resolves this appropriately.

      • mesamuneOP
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        115 days ago

        Sometimes I wish lemmy/fediverse had an option to detect if something was on the fedi and give you the option to direct link. Would make it nicer to vote/follow.

        • @[email protected]
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          Third-party apps like boost can do this, so I assume the frontend could if they wanted.

          • mesamuneOP
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            25 days ago

            Interesting I’ll give it a shot.

      • @Passerby6497
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        55 days ago

        Much like the other user, the instance link works for me and keeps me local, but the lemmy verse link takes me to that instance.

      • @[email protected]
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        In Eternity, my link works and opens in the app while the lemmyverse.link ‘cannot be resolved’.

      • @[email protected]
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        35 days ago

        I don’t understand how lemmy and fedi apps in general still have this problem, they never seem to be able to recognize a link and just show it on my home instance.