There is a comment in one of the commits from 2005 (OmniBase-jf.2) that suggests that OmniBase had a free with restrictions license:

http://www.squeaksource.com/@dZ70JMB-R7RDi4-m/Ox-ysyAT

Also, licensing was messier these days, some of that mess creeps up until today.

Esteban A. Maringolo

On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 2:30 PM PAUL DEBRUICKER <pdebruic@gmail.com> wrote:

From my reading, it seems like whoever posted OmniBase to github 9 years ago added the MIT license without permission and the OmniBase library remains closed source.��

> On Aug 23, 2022, at 6:46 AM, sean@clipperadams.com wrote:
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> I��m not fully understanding the issue.
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>�� The repos are violating the library license (other than the erroneous MIT license, which could easily be updated)?
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>�� The fact that OmniBase is not open source violates a principle you have in continuing to host it?
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> If the latter, may I suggest you offer to transfer the repo(s) to a willing party?
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