Element has chosen to pursue future development of Synapse, Dendrite and associated server-side projects under the terms of AGPLv3.

Synapse and Dendrite relicensed to AGPLv3

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      It allows for proprietary use of a FOSS. Its true that almost all of the contributions are from element but that doesn’t make it right.

      Element is in trouble and they are trying to stay afloat

      • @[email protected]English
        4•1 year ago

        Quite the opposite. Synapse was licenced under Apache licence, which allowed everybody to make proprietary fork.

        Now only Element can do proprietary fork, as they are the copyright owners and owner of the work can relicence the software as they want.

        The CLA that Element require to contribute changes to their Synapse version is the controversial thing. Because if you contribute, the lines of code you made are your copyright, so if Element takes at least one community contribution the would be locked to AGPL. What CLA does is that you sign off those rights.