On 2024-06-05, Peter J. Philipp <p...@delphinusdns.org> wrote: > I have been made aware of hearsay that someone took my open source code > protected under the same license as OpenBSD and sold it for a lot of money.
There is nothing in either the ISC license used in OpenBSD (or in the GNU public license for that matter), to prevent people from doing that. People who receive the code under that license are of course allowed to pass it on though. The ethos of the license typically used for OpenBSD code is basically "do what you want with this code" (but expressed in a way that tries to cover all the bases). If you want to restrict commercial use then it's the wrong license to use. > I have no proof of this personally but I ask you to help me find evidence of > this. There is not much I can do about this, except if the person or persons > were stupid enough to change the license to their names. If they've removed or changed the license, that isn't allowed (though they can add an additional license for changes). Actual enforcement might well be difficult/expensive though.
