Why are fediverse admins blocking out threads?

dartos@reddthat.com · 3 年前

stewie3128@lemmy.ml · edit-2 3 年前

I think ActivityPub’s license should prohibit financially profiting from the platform.

EDIT: I mean “should be changed to”

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 年前

At this point the cat is kind of out of the bag though.

mvirts@lemmy.world · 3 年前

You can change your license if you hold copyright

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · edit-2 3 年前

Really? So Linus Torvalds could make Linux proprietary all the sudden? I’m skeptical. And it’s going to vary by jurisdiction too.

dartos@reddthat.com · 3 年前

Well yeah he could, but he can’t retroactively apply that license change, so the Linux foundation would just keep rolling on with their own fork.

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 年前

Even if you’re right, wouldn’t the same thing apply to the implementation in Threads?

dartos@reddthat.com · 3 年前

I was talking about Linux specifically because it’s under the GPL license. Threads isn’t open source at all afaik, so it doesn’t really apply

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 年前

The implementation of ActivityPub in Threads, I mean.

dartos@reddthat.com · 3 年前

I don’t think it does. ActivityPub is just a specification. The spec itself is under a very permissive license https://www.w3.org/copyright/software-license-2015/