Ask HN: OK to fork an open source repo and make a product to sell(SaaS) I have had a few successful contributions to an Apache 2.0 licensed software package. This package is developed as open source but offered as an enterprise SaaS offering. Now, the founders, being of European origin - have different ideas on development/design. And I don’t like it. But I want to work on that product and release my own offering, after forking their codebase - which I have already done. I know Apache 2.0 is a permissive license. I am wondering if I’ll get into legal trouble later when I float my own company. I will use some of their code although I’ll make major changes. I want to play it safe and avoid legal battles over copyright. |