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A nodejs closed caption converter. I’m not a developer but can get along just fine for most of my projects.

Funniest part was, I open sourced it. Then a few years and an acquisition later the parent company tried to sell us a tool for converting caption files based off my own code.

https://github.com/jasonrojas/node-captions



How did you feel about that from a licensing perspective?

Not trying to bait a copyleft vs permissive argument, I'm genuinely interested.


I honestly just laughed it off and chalked it up to a really fun experience. If someone finds my code useful in some way I guess it proves I did something decently. If they sell it and make $ off of it well yeah it wouldn't be ideal but hey, It's open source, I made it so people can use it.


I'd love to hear more details about how that interaction went!


My friend and I in the room who just laughed, we said "Oh this is cool, what are you using to parse the caption files?" They mentioned my project and I said "Yeah I am the maintainer....." pretty sure nothing else was really said about it after that... Not as fun as you probably hoped but for me it was fantastic.




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