just why...
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why change to PolyForm if it caused tons of backlash?
why change?
if the community has to pay the price?
i don't think the community has paid any price at all. the only section of the modding community are forks of sodium and the following of them. every other part seems to be fine and this commit was over a year ago, and everyone has learned to live with it. if you could provide a section of the modding community that has been harmed by this besides the two i listed above, i would hear you out
basically. the community got pissed over it, and that backlash isnt dying down soon...
@glkdrlgkrlzflnjkgh You appear to have forked our project and changed the license without regard for copyright law. It is not permissible to re-license the works of others to a more permissive license without getting permission from all rights holders. And that won't happen, speaking as the primary rights holder.
Please don't make me issue takedown requests to GitHub against your account.
And to just address the point about "backlash not going away", we have no idea what you're talking about. Outside of a small microcosm of some particular individuals, the license change has hardly been a relevant topic in over a year. It's not even remotely a disputed point: both mod downloads on Modrinth and outside contributions on GitHub have steadily and significantly increased since the license change.
People can argue about open-source idealism all day, but there isn't any evidence that the community has somehow "suffered" for the license change when Sodium continues to grow in popularity and improve in quality every day.
The reality is that more practical harm was being caused by third-party clients and unmaintained/hostile forks than whatever theoretical harm we are supposedly causing with our fairly permissive source-visible license. And for the player's part, their experience is arguably better now.