@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years agoWhy are fediverse admins blocking out threads?message-square53fedilinkarrow-up180arrow-down129file-text
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoAt this point the cat is kind of out of the bag though.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-22 years agoReally? So Linus Torvalds could make Linux proprietary all the sudden? I’m skeptical. And it’s going to vary by jurisdiction too.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoWell 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoEven if you’re right, wouldn’t the same thing apply to the implementation in Threads?
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoI 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
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoThe implementation of ActivityPub in Threads, I mean.
At this point the cat is kind of out of the bag though.
You can change your license if you hold copyright
Really? So Linus Torvalds could make Linux proprietary all the sudden? I’m skeptical. And it’s going to vary by jurisdiction too.
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.
Even if you’re right, wouldn’t the same thing apply to the implementation in Threads?
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
The implementation of ActivityPub in Threads, I mean.