Tim Uckun (Sep 07 2025 at 22:01): Tim Uckun (Sep 07 2025 at 22:01):MIT license. Nice.
Ron Waldon-Howe (Sep 07 2025 at 22:34):Link here: https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire
Ron Waldon-Howe (Sep 07 2025 at 22:36):Licence choice is interesting
There seems to be a lot of noise from pro-GPL folks whenever a Rust project is released under MIT/BSD
I wonder if those same folks will be concerned about this?
Tim Uckun (Sep 07 2025 at 22:39):It is interesting. I would have thought it would be the AGPL to curb people reselling the app.
My theory is that they have no interest in shepherding the project and taking pull requests etc. They probably forked their a while ago and will he busy maintaining and improving that. The don't want the hassle of maintaining a community around the project.
Ron Waldon-Howe (Sep 07 2025 at 22:41):Fairly or otherwise, Ruby has a reputation for not scaling well, so, I imagine a hyper-scaler is not going to be bothered trying to sell hosting for it
Ron Waldon-Howe (Sep 07 2025 at 22:43):Ruby on Rails has a CONTRIBUTION.md and a CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md https://github.com/rails/rails
But nothing explicit like that for campfire so far
Ron Waldon-Howe (Sep 07 2025 at 22:48):Nice of them to dump the source code like this when a service isn't super profitable
Much better than Google just turning off the lights and pretending the service never existed
Tim Uckun (Sep 07 2025 at 23:38):This is a version that uses SQLite, theirs uses MySQL. This is probably a trivial change given rails but I wonder if they removed the multi tenant functions from the open source one.
They used to sell this app for a fixed price. You would buy it with a one time payment and use it as you will and examine the code out modify it etc.
I might download it and take a look at the source. Better than guessing!
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