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posted by martyb on Sunday September 22 2019, @05:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-kitchen-is-closed dept.

A developer of some Ruby Gems pulled the code as a statement against certain entities (Department of Homeland Security — DHS) ultimately using the code. Chef gets owned in the process.

ZDNet has a good rundown of the incident:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/developer-takes-down-ruby-library-after-he-finds-out-ice-was-using-it/

It seems that developers at chef may have used an old copy of the dev's code to get things back up and running again, which seems like exactly the wrong approach.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by number11 on Monday September 23 2019, @03:33AM

    by number11 (1170) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 23 2019, @03:33AM (#897394)

    That license allows usage for any purpose.

    But there's nothing in the license that requires the developer (or anyone else) to continue to maintain a copy online. It's like "buying" something like a music file that depends on a DRM server to access. When they shut the DRM server down, I guess you still own your copy, but it's unuseable. (Microsoft, to their credit, is offering to refund the cost to some buyers, but not every company does.)

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