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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Glitchvid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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solrize@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
Glitchvid@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 month 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.
RYS@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
When I first read the article this was a WTF moment for me. I was reading it twice to find out how that fits in the whole picture, but it is just mentioned once… no further explanation. So I called the whole thing BS…