Looks like someone managed to grab a full copy right before the repo was yanked: <a href="https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer">https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer</a><p>Last commit was 15 hours ago. This was <i>very</i> recent.
Actually I didn't know it used to be open source!<p>I think they make money by selling data harvested through the extension. So you might be able to pay them to answer "how many websites are using X library/framework"?
For any one interested here is a fork of the last commit (not my GH):
<a href="https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer">https://github.com/dochne/wappalyzer</a><p>It feels a bit odd to benefit from open source and than make it private, of course the author is allowed to do that but it does make me cautious about other OSS projects that are getting funding now
The owner of the project change it to private and discontinued because he want to monetize it.<p>I read today that a company will follow the project almos the "techonoly" files, that is the more difficult to mantain.
<a href="https://github.com/enthec/webappanalyzer">https://github.com/enthec/webappanalyzer</a>
I have a copy of it from 11th of July, since I used to contibute.<p><a href="https://github.com/osbre/wappalyzer">https://github.com/osbre/wappalyzer</a> (with the original commit history)<p>Weird and sad to see this extension go private, it was recieving a lot of contributions on GitHub.
It appears that this was done on purpose and is not an oversight.<p><a href="https://nitter.net/elbertalias/status/1694454191266390361" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://nitter.net/elbertalias/status/1694454191266390361</a>
I should note that the company was private about this, and didn’t mention it anywhere. Someone asked what they’re selling, which I couldn’t respond to since it’s dead, but they’re trying to sell an API, which is basically what was open source but it requires internet and costs money.
Are there any legal impact of closing the source code considering people have contributed to this project and they are very likely using those contributions?