A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends

Post by zzzeek » Fri, Nov 10, 2023, 2:18 PM UTC

YoshiRulz wrote: post #252

zzzeek wrote: post #131

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> PRs I sent were rewritten, squashed and merged by the Dendrite team, instead of them just doing reviews and asking me to fix what they considered unfitting(substandard/wrong. Core devs rewriting and fixing up PRs typically saves a ton of development effort. We field lots of PRs and while I make my best effort to hold their hand to get tests written and such, at some point it's intensely wasteful of everyone's time…

I second this. As a maintainer, I have a very good understanding of how long it would take (someone familiar with the codebase) to make certain changes. It's far from disrespectful to push before merging when the alternative is to waste both the contributor's time and my own on at least 1 round of purely code style feedback. As a drive-by contributor, I always leave the box checked—the parent commenter seems to be un…

Post by LaGrange » Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 7:07 PM UTC

tensor wrote: post #155

LaGrange wrote: post #136

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Yes. That's why you shouldn't contribute to software on permissive licenses. > What difference does it make to the community if Element gets paid for this? Without that, Element would have to either pay people their fair share, or _leave_. They're not a charity, they're not doing this "for us," they're just extracting free labor.

Personally I would never contribute to AGPL software. I don’t want my contribution to forever be stuck in some political movement. I do contribute to permissive licensed software.