Huh. I thought it was open source.

EDIT: Wikipedia says it used to be open source, but it went to closed source. Still free as in beer, though.

Anyone wondering as to why Paint.NET transitioned to closed source may find this insightful:

https://blog.getpaint.net/2007/12/04/freeware-authors-beware...

Despite what happened to his software, which is clearly unfortunate, it's a shame to see it turn closed source. I would have thought that projects would be hopefully moving toward more free licenses.

What license was it under? If it was something like BSD than it sounds like what people were doing with the program was legal.

MIT, and no. Even the BSD and MIT licenses don't allow you to remove the copyright notice.

I apologize, unfortunately it's too late to delete or modify my comment.

It was put on a list of free/open software that we can't use at work awhile back, apparently for another reason. I should have checked first.