The FOSS world never lacks this drama

Posted Jun 14, 2025 11:10 UTC (Sat) by PengZheng (subscriber, #108006)
Parent article: CoMaps emerges as an Organic Maps fork

> This organization could be complicated by a proposal made on May 12 to relicense CoMaps under the GNU AGPLv3 rather than the current Apache-2.0 license, a suggestion already attracting significant discussion on Codeberg and Zulip. In such a case, Organic Maps would be forced to follow suit and adopt the AGPL in order to incorporate improvements contributed first to CoMaps, whereas CoMaps would face no legal problems taking patches from Organic Maps.

This reminds me of the (in)famous FFmpeg/libav split. And CoMaps developers clearly learned the lesson.