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GPL violations are a serious business and Mastodon is well within their rights to ask for the code to be released. But the business hasn't even opened yet and they're already waving permanent revocation around. This sort of aggression in enforcing the GPL may actually be unprecedented.
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This is interesting to me because it's both a high-profile violation of AGPL, and because it's (for better or for worse) a high-profile usage of Mastodon in the wild.
Gab was pretty high profile too, no?
Do we really have to give this guy the #1 Hacker News story? He was fading into the background so nicely.
Seems like the terms they quoted are boilerplate. I wouldn’t attribute this to malice.
Does a history of enforcement help in cases like this? The article itself says that Truth Social is "antithetical" to Mastodon's values, but that there's nothing they can do about the usage of their software other than license violations. It sounds like they have a bias to enforce their license in this case. If Mastodon has a weak history of enforcing their license to other organizations, does it weaken the case? I'm…
In a 6-3 ruling, Justice Ginsburg declared that laches cannot be invoked as a bar to pursuing a claim for damages brought within §507(b)'s three-year window. However, in extraordinary circumstances, laches may curtail the relief equitably awarded at the very outset of litigation,
Petty.
Do we really have to give this guy the #1 Hacker News story? He was fading into the background so nicely.
We've seen what powers he bestows. These will increase with martyrdom.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is interesting to me because it's both a high-profile violation of AGPL, and because it's (for better or for worse) a high-profile usage of Mastodon in the wild.
Gab was pretty high profile too, no?
Truth Social can just do what Gab did and provide a password-protected file in a public self-hosted git repository and they will be compliant.
Do we really have to give this guy the #1 Hacker News story? He was fading into the background so nicely.
And sensible people would prefer that license violations would be published and pursued fairly, and personal feelings kept personal, rather than creating a soft list of people and perspectives whose online/computing freedom is less important than others.