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Glitchvid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I didn’t understand the original post. It seemed like someone whining about a switch to AGPL. But that switch certainly sounds like a good thing to me. I didn’t know the old license was Apache but it still seems like a good switch. Redis (with a misstep in between) did something similar.

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• AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  AGPL is a full-on FOSS licence with strong copyleft requirements, not a measly open-source licence like Apache, which could be pivoted to proprietary at a moment’s notice. We’re communicating through an AGPL-licensed system right now as it’s what Lemmy’s licensed as. If they were going for a corporate-friendly licence, AGPL is the last thing they’d choose as it forces you to share source code with even more people than the regular GPL does.

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  • Glitchvid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My bad, I thought they were moving from Apache to something more restrictive / less open (the way so many have recently), especially by their wording — which conveys to me they’re frustrated they aren’t capturing the “value” of their code.

    AGPL is not my favorite license but it has its purposes I suppose.

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      sh.itjust.works/post/40175570

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      • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Omg thanks for linking that thread. The amount of removed and deleted content on Lemmy is so frustrating. I hate the fact that removed or deleted posts also completely nuke all the comments on it.

        Reddit’s approach is so much better in this respect. A removed post removed the OP’s text, but if it’s a link post the link remains, and all the comments remain.

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