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TCB13@lemmy.world 10 months agoWhat about NO.
Matrix is developed by a for profit entity, a group of venture capitalists and having a spec doesn’t mean everything (…) The way Matrix is designed is to force into jumping through hoops and kind of draw all attention to Matrix itself instead of the end result
For all the people downvoting my original comment this was just out. Oh well what do I know…
Decentralized communication protocol Matrix shifts to less-permissive AGPL open source license
Element, the company and core developer behind the decentralized communication protocol known as Matrix, has announced a notable license change that will make the open source project just that little bit less appealing for companies looking to build on top of it.
moving to AGPL is “less permissive” than the apache license they currently use? no. this is just plain wrong. the supposedly less-permissive part is the CLA they are asking contributors to sign so they can dual-license the software in some situations, but the CLA isn’t even written yet and they are actively listening to feedback from the community to determine how best to shape this license agreement so that all parties are happy.
this is FUD.
moving to AGPL is “less permissive” than the apache license they currently use? no.
Oh yes, but it is.
Apache > You can do what you like with the software, as long as you include the required notices. AGPL > You may do what you like BUT you need to track changes and provide the source code - this essentially kills any company trying to build a product around it.
We dont want a bunch of proprietary extensions to an open communications standard, do we? This is something positive.
That said, I dont have much hope for matrix. Implemented in python with the initial goal of “bridging every chat platform in existence” is just bound to be a disaster.
Maintaining anything beyond a couple of hundred lines in python becomes tedious imo.
The rewrite in go has been spoken about since like 2018, and matrix.org still runs synapse iirc. Synapse should have been trashed immediately after MVP demonstration.
Theres also conduit, but to be honest, i feel like the lesson here is to avoid feature creep. Safe, fast and distributed dm text chat should have been the target functionality, with a lean, mean codebase.
Thanks for coming to my ted talk
Implemented in python with the initial goal of “bridging every chat platform in existence” is just bound to be a disaster.
Just like Chia, who on their right minds would do those things in Python.
hillbicks@feddit.de 10 months ago
The fact that the ccc uses matrix as their official chat “app” doesn’t imply that it is inherently insecure I would say.