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Irrevocable copyright, I love it. It will stay open source and hosted there.
Bob should not be all to blame. Novus is clearly handling this poorly.
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I'll accept pull requests, and if anyone had issues, please repost them.
Thanks for your stand, Rob. If anyone doubts that Novus knew about this project, consider that it was hosted on the official company github account and was sitting there under an open source license for almost a year. Take a look for yourself in the job ad posted on HN in September: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463689 It's even referred to as "open-source" in the ad. I'm guessing that when Bob asked if he could build an open source library to use with company projects, his boss told him "sure, knock yourself out". But now his boss's boss, or maybe the CEO, sees how nice it looks and wants to put the genie back in the bottle.
Luckily, "un" open sourcing projects under Apache, BSD, MIT, GPL, etc. is not so easy.
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Thanks, that's my fork, it's was released under Apache 2.0.
https://github.com/RobertLowe/nvd3/blob/master/LICENSE.md
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* Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare Derivative Works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the Work and such Derivative Works in Source or Object form.
Irrevocable copyright, I love it. It will stay open source and hosted there.
Bob should not be all to blame. Novus is clearly handling this poorly.
EDIT:
I'll accept pull requests, and if anyone had issues, please repost them.
Thanks for your stand, Rob. If anyone doubts that Novus knew about this project, consider that it was hosted on the official company github account and was sitting there under an open source license for almost a year. Take a look for yourself in the job ad posted on HN in September: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463689 It's even referred to as "open-source" in the ad. I'm guessing that when Bob asked if he could build an open source library to use with company projects, his boss told him "sure, knock yourself out". But now his boss's boss, or maybe the CEO, sees how nice it looks and wants to put the genie back in the bottle.
Luckily, "un" open sourcing projects under Apache, BSD, MIT, GPL, etc. is not so easy.
Here's a direct link to the job posting, since it was hidden behind the "more" link for me: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4464588
Also, the poster (wheaties) is not Bob, since they mention Bob in the third person a few times in other posts.