I believe there is a sizable community suffering the current situation of TypeORM, a blackmailing author without introducing new members.

Why isn't there a succeeding fork yet? We have Sequal Ace now, people can do it!

More details please.

It can be if that author owns a significant part of the code, in which case a fork would also be caught up in legal problems.

I know that the bukkit minecraft server suffered for that.

One long time dev got angry on changes by mojangs eula and since bukkit was built on decompiled mojang code, but bukkit had accepted code with gpl, it was all a legal mess

And when that dev chose to claim the gpl rule of code sharing, which was impossible since them mojang code was used without any real permission, just a silent “we know but will not sue you as we like the idea” standpoint, bukkit had no option than to pack up shop.

A fork was made but it had to live on servers in a country where you could not sue them for a few years until all the code of the deb that complained had been replaced (if I recall correctly)

So if legal problems are involved it could just be than o one dares to touch it.

@Voxera Ah yes, having to compile spigot every fucking time instead of downloading it somewhere

@nitnip read the issue https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm/.... The only author stops handling issues, stop taking PRs because it was too much and he wants to be paid as a full time job. While other projects takes in more members to collaborate, this guy wants money only for himself.

@Voxera TypeORM is licensed MIT https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm/..., I guess it is good to fork.

My example of Sequel Ace is a successor of Sequel Pro, which is also MIT https://github.com/sequelpro/.... The original project is years off of maintenance, Sequel Ace is now an active project that listed on macOS App Store.

I think there is nothing stopping a few passionates from forking and rebrand.

@vicary if its MIT licens it should be safe to fork yes.

And if no one has done it, well either do it your self or accept that no one cares enough to do it.

That’s the beauty of the MIT license, anyone can fork it, but if you are not prepared to pay what someone is asking you have no right to expect anyone to work for free :)

At least that is how I see it.

@Voxera I guess not talking more members is essentially blackmailing. Not pretty.

Should I be prepared for it every time? I honestly don't want to, because I've seen better.

That's said, if I am being paid full time to work on this, I will seriously consider leaving my startup to my partners. So the incentive is understandable.