Comment on what is Fermi/Harmony Chat ?
cice@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago atm its kinda better than stoat since development doesnt take much time, unlike sotat which are horribly slow to fix bugs and implement features.
also (kinda unrelated) harmony have better moderation than stoat which had pretty messed up things happens in the mod team plus them still enforcing OSA since they are in the uk.
keep in mind federation isnt ready atm on harmony.
heres the codeberg : codeberg.org/MelodyChat/Harmony
unlike stoat which requires to apply to be able to contribute which is suspicious for a supposed open source software.
They’re doing it because they require a Developer Certificate of Origin from contributors in order to mitigate legal liability. Which is probably smart, it’s good to cover your bases when you take on the likes of Discord, who would love to be given an opening to sue and/or obtain a cease & desist on copyright grounds.
cice@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago tho having to have a certificate does goes against FLOSS values. the goal isnt to make contributing elitist but that anyone can modify it. being scared of legal repercussions for code is like weird since the platform doesnt do illegal things and disallow misusage of the platform or code. any platform disallow to use their platform as a intermediary in a cyberattack. obviously.
That’s like saying the GPL goes against FLOSS because it’s a “big spooky license” people have to read before contributing
Did they go back on the CLA? I’d more readily point out their proprietary software on their gitlab, and their general lack of commitment to FOSS. They made a newly fully proprietary gif service and whatnot, which is just weird for an org promoting FOSS.