- cross-posted to:
- hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
- piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- cross-posted to:
- hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
- piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
project will no longer be under active development due to recent events involving Kakao Entertainment Corp’s threats to both myself and others
In the upcoming days:
- Our core GitHub repositories will be taken down
- The official social media accounts will be closed
- The official Discord server will be repurposed into a general community for those who are interested in staying
It’s sad to see companies threatening completely legal projects, knowing that the volunteering developers don’t have the time and money to win a lawsuit against a large company with lawyers. It’s nothing less than bullying volunteers, or similar to SLAPP suits.
Edit: typo
GNOME once fought off a patent lawsuit, Maybe they could have partnered with a non profit related to FOSS that could have done the “heavy lifting”.