Helix@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years agoMeta's decentralized social plans confirmed. Is Embrace-Extend-Extinguish of the Fediverse next?reb00ted.orgexternal-linkmessage-square236fedilinkarrow-up1224arrow-down11
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minus-squareScott@lem.free.aslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 years agoOne 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-up7·2 years agoFacebook can easily circumvent most requirements like that if the license isn’t invasivively copyleft. Usually web standards have permissive licenses.
minus-squareadderaline@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoi’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-up3·2 years agoIf it is copyleft, they will probably try to reimplement it permissively.
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.