On: uBlock Origin GPL code being stolen by team behind Honey browser extension

[Dylan16807]

It's not "the" commons but it sure looks like "a" commons to me.

[PaulDavisThe1st → Dylan16807]

In the accurate historical sense of the term, yes.

In the much more currently commonplace use of the term as "a bunch of resources that people can just use", no.

[Dylan16807 → PaulDavisThe1st]

I think it does fit "a bunch of resources that people can just use". It's a shared pool where the only rule is to put derived code back, except the rule is even less because personal use is exempted.