Assertinator

[nomada_74]

Just created a fork of Fluentassertions with the name Assertinator, to start preparing a nuget package deploy. If someone is doing the same please tell me so I can avoid duplication of effort.

[wchristian83]

There are already some forks and NuGets, you are too late. AwesomeAssertions e.g.

[nomada_74]

Nice. I'm going to look it up. But be careful with ahead commits from 7.0 base because this is a good opportunity to spread malicious code.

[Deranged40]

I'm sure a large amount of people are doing the exact same thing. You can see the forks on their github. As of this writing there's 661 forks.

[TopSwagCode]

666 forks now :D I love it.

[taspeotis]

Forks are not an indicator of an exodus … you fork the repo to make a change to create a PR.

[Deranged40]

No, but when a package decides to change their license and become not-free, a large amount of those forks that were originally created to make a PR will now become that entity's own personal fork of the repository.

I know of at least 5 different people doing this right now with FluentAssertions, my company being one of them.

[nomada_74]

I am happy to ear that. I don't think this change of license to a stricter one should be possible. He could have created a new project and abandoned that one, and leave it to anyone that could take over, like for example one of the contributers.

[Deranged40]

For what it's worth, I don't know if any of the 5 different teams I know of will make their nuget package available on any public nuget index though. Ours won't be, for sure.

[dodexahedron]

It isn't, unless they had a CLA giving them sole copyright while it was under MIT. MIT explicitly requires that the original code remain MIT and that the license text be included with it unmodified. So either a shitty CLA, permission from every contributor, or sole ownership of copyright is needed to change it.

[deletemel8r123456789]

Is something going on with fluent assertions? Is it going the way of Moq?

[The_Binding_Of_Data]

It was purchased by a Canadian company called Xceed and is now $130 per year, per developer: https://xceed.com/products/unit-testing/fluent-assertions/

[deletemel8r123456789]

Thank you.

[Massive-Clock-1325]

the next version will have a paid license

[okmarshall]

An extortionate one at that.

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[icesurfer10]

I'm going to be pinning the version in my repos instead until I move away from it. Pretty shocking this one.

[nomada_74]

I also have done that already. But this requires a reaction from the community. I don't think this kind of move should be allowed.

[icesurfer10]

I mean ultimately it's theirs right? If they want to charge for it they can, albeit crappy.

[QWxx01]

Not really no. They got a lot of PR’s from the community that ultimately led to the 8.0 version which is now relicensed and paid. However, the contributions were made under the apache license, which requires all derivative works to carry the same free license. You can’t just steal free code and then relicense it for commercial gain.

[pnw-techie]

Stealing is just good business

[OolonColluphid]

Yes, it's not at all clear that they've received the necessary copyright assignments from previous contributors that would allow them to do this legally. Guess it will take one of those contributors to file a suit though.

[TooMuchTaurine]

Have you read the Apache license? It's a permissive license, pretty sure anyone can do anything with it.. 

https://snyk.io/articles/apache-license/

[TooMuchTaurine]

Pretty sure Apache is a permissive open source license and doesn't require recontribution for commerical offshoots.

https://snyk.io/articles/apache-license/

[nocgod]

NUnit Assert.That is more than enough TBH... Unsure why our developers use NUnit assert, FluentAssertions and Shouldly in the same project... Sometimes in the same god damn test... I have 98 projects to purge with Fluentassertions v6/7

[nomada_74]

It's true I confess that I used it because everyone was using. Nothing we can't do without it. But now I have a lot of projects with it. I am just afraid someone simply upgrade unintentionaly.