โฒ 560 โผ Lemmy is CEO-proof. After Digg, Reddit and Twitter, that term should be a thing (yiffit.net) submitted 3 years ago by Wander@yiffit.net to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world 156 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[โ] zephyr@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) so good it goes close source That's what the GPL is for: preserve freedom of the users. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) To put a finer point on it, that's precisely why it's important for Free Software to be copyleft rather than merely permissively-licensed. (And for it to either have a trustworthy copyright holder, like the Free Software Foundation or similar non-profit, or to have too many copyright holders to make changing the license tractable.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child) Exactly. They would have to rewrite all the code in order to make it proprietary. AGPL license ensures that not even an instance owner can (legally) change the code of their own instance without releasing the modified source code. We need to make sure that any apps that are created for Lemmy, also have a Copyleft license. At the very least they should be Free Software (which doesn't seem to be guaranteed sadly, since most people don't know what that means). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] funkyb@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago "Created for Lemmy" isn't really a thing, all you need is to implement the ActivityPub protocol. Whether or not it has any relationship to Lemmy has no bearing on if it can talk to instances using Lemmy's implementation. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) To put a finer point on it, that's precisely why it's important for Free Software to be copyleft rather than merely permissively-licensed. (And for it to either have a trustworthy copyright holder, like the Free Software Foundation or similar non-profit, or to have too many copyright holders to make changing the license tractable.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child) Exactly. They would have to rewrite all the code in order to make it proprietary. AGPL license ensures that not even an instance owner can (legally) change the code of their own instance without releasing the modified source code. We need to make sure that any apps that are created for Lemmy, also have a Copyleft license. At the very least they should be Free Software (which doesn't seem to be guaranteed sadly, since most people don't know what that means). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] funkyb@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago "Created for Lemmy" isn't really a thing, all you need is to implement the ActivityPub protocol. Whether or not it has any relationship to Lemmy has no bearing on if it can talk to instances using Lemmy's implementation. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child) Exactly. They would have to rewrite all the code in order to make it proprietary. AGPL license ensures that not even an instance owner can (legally) change the code of their own instance without releasing the modified source code. We need to make sure that any apps that are created for Lemmy, also have a Copyleft license. At the very least they should be Free Software (which doesn't seem to be guaranteed sadly, since most people don't know what that means). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] funkyb@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago "Created for Lemmy" isn't really a thing, all you need is to implement the ActivityPub protocol. Whether or not it has any relationship to Lemmy has no bearing on if it can talk to instances using Lemmy's implementation. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] funkyb@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago "Created for Lemmy" isn't really a thing, all you need is to implement the ActivityPub protocol. Whether or not it has any relationship to Lemmy has no bearing on if it can talk to instances using Lemmy's implementation. permalink fedilink source parent