Helix@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 3年前Meta's decentralized social plans confirmed. Is Embrace-Extend-Extinguish of the Fediverse next?reb00ted.orgexternal-linkmessage-square238fedilinkarrow-up1230cross-posted to: meta@lemm.ee
arrow-up1230external-linkMeta's decentralized social plans confirmed. Is Embrace-Extend-Extinguish of the Fediverse next?reb00ted.orgHelix@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 3年前message-square238fedilinkcross-posted to: meta@lemm.ee
minus-squareScott@lem.free.aslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3年前One of the “powers” of OSS is that the license usually required changes to be fed back upstream. If Meta were not to do that the authors of Lemmy could ask someone like EFF to take legal proceeding against them.
minus-squareHelix@beehaw.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3年前Facebook can easily circumvent most requirements like that if the license isn’t invasivively copyleft. Usually web standards have permissive licenses.
minus-squareadderaline@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3年前i’m not sure if ActivityPub is copyleft or not. meta might be able to build proprietary features on top of it if the license isn’t viral.
minus-squarejabjoe@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3年前If it is copyleft, they will probably try to reimplement it permissively.
minus-squarelloram239@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3年前ActivityPub itself is just a protocol, everybody can reimplement it. Lemmy and Mastodon are AGPL3 and thus copyleft along with “you must release source code for your server”.
One of the “powers” of OSS is that the license usually required changes to be fed back upstream.
If Meta were not to do that the authors of Lemmy could ask someone like EFF to take legal proceeding against them.
Facebook can easily circumvent most requirements like that if the license isn’t invasivively copyleft. Usually web standards have permissive licenses.
i’m not sure if ActivityPub is copyleft or not. meta might be able to build proprietary features on top of it if the license isn’t viral.
If it is copyleft, they will probably try to reimplement it permissively.
ActivityPub itself is just a protocol, everybody can reimplement it. Lemmy and Mastodon are AGPL3 and thus copyleft along with “you must release source code for your server”.