There are already agreements that forks are not allowed to remove the premium feature stuff, they could do this to grok as well.
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woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The beauty of open source is that there will be 3rd party clients that don’t care about all of that.
passepartout@feddit.org 1 month ago
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They can’t force local UI elements via server. That’s impossible to do with forks who decide against following server side requests.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Your non-premium account tries to use a feature available to premium and that doesn’t work. Where does the GPL come into equation?
Also they can detect alternative clients and ban them.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Grok UI elements and number of GIFs in the picker are 100% local features clients can choose to ignore.
droopy4096@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
they will be integrating it on service side if I read it correctly so the choice of client would be non-important
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They can’t force local UI elements via server. That’s impossible to do with forks who decide against following server side requests.