[konceptz]

If you read the article, the developer already was not working for Chef. Chef was/is relying on OSS components which the former develop pulled from the open repository. -edit for clarity.

[schmookeeg]

Thanks, I overlooked that somehow. (pre-morning tea over here :) )

I haven't read many OSS licenses. Can't someone just publish an 'unethical' fork and life goes on?

[jlosito]

I believe it would depend on the license which the original piece of software was released under.

[konceptz]

Interesting approach. Makes me wonder if you authored a component and extended a license to say that “use of this code must abide by [inert relevant code of ethics]”, could you enforce that?

[lazyasciiart]

Thats exactly what has happened.

[moomin]

Someone (Chef) has already unethically forked it.

[CaliforniaKarl]

That’s something that wasn’t particularly clear to me from the article, but some browsing around GitHub cleared it up.

Chef now has the repo ‘forked’ in to their GitHub account: https://github.com/chef/chef-sugar