Comment by lucideer
5 years ago
This is a subdependency of a larger project (homeassistant) so doing so would involve nix maintaining an entirely separate fork of homeassistant, which is a completely unviable ask.
The author's conduct in that thread is certainly not what I'd call "acting as the bigger person".
If they were serious about their request they'd be looking into having the homeassistant guys removing it, or PRing to homeassistant. Or changing the license to make it closed source.
They appear to have done that last bit after getting nowhere with the Nix maintainers. Does that prove their seriousness?
Which last bit?
From looking at the ambee repo the license appears to still be MIT; can't see any relicensing anywhere.
(And actually, as has been mentioned elsewhere, it seems like it wouldn't be possible for him to relicense in reality as the package is explicitly developed for homeassistant and as such would need to comply with homeassistant's licensing to be included as a dependency of it)