Comment on what is Fermi/Harmony Chat ?
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 4 hours agounlike 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.
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.