@dartos@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agoWhy are fediverse admins blocking out threads?message-square54fedilinkarrow-up180arrow-down128file-text
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minus-square@mvirts@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoYou can change your license if you hold copyright
minus-square@CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-21 year 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@dartos@reddthat.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year 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@CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoEven if you’re right, wouldn’t the same thing apply to the implementation in Threads?
minus-square@dartos@reddthat.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year 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@CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoThe implementation of ActivityPub in Threads, I mean.
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.