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FWIW frenk clarified that their issues was not licensing, but support.

> For me, this was not about licensing specifically. However, that point unfortunately is missed and got lost. Which is unfortunate. A lot blew up on the route, which just sucks for both parties.

> In the end, I think the way this project distributes Home Assistant (and its integrations, including Ambee) is not providing the intended working and thus may surprise the end user. In the end, those users are likely to knock on the doors of the Home Assistant project and their integration maintainers, not this project. As a matter of fact, most of my packages in this project are outdated and don't match the distributed version of Home Assistant.






That's why I asked about attitude, not anything else. It's perfectly fine to decide to not to support someone, but...

"I release my code under FOSS license, but if anyone distribute it in a way I consider not nice, I will re-license it just to screw them over." [1]

When I was considering using HA and was casually browsing community discussions, there were many posts gave me similar feeling like above case. There were other technical reasons that I decided to not to use HA, but this certainly left a really bad taste in my mouth.

1. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326#issuecomment-86...




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