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I get meta evil, but aren’t we just blocking out any users from accessing the wider fediverse?

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[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can change your license if you hold copyright

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Really? So Linus Torvalds could make Linux proprietary all the sudden? I'm skeptical. And it's going to vary by jurisdiction too.

[–] dartos@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if you're right, wouldn't the same thing apply to the implementation in Threads?

[–] dartos@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

The implementation of ActivityPub in Threads, I mean.