Congrats to @townsxyz@twitter.com for launching. Great to see Dendrite and Matrix in the wild, but unfortunate to see it branded as “Towns Protocol” with zero reference to Matrix: towns.com/faq/ Guess it’s time to consider shifting impls to AGPL in the face of proprietary forks.
KitKat
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techcrunch.comKay Ohtie 🎈🌵🐺
in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation • • •@KitKat "may look familiar...like Discord!"
no, it looks literally like Element, because it _is_ Element.
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in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation • • •Of course it's the crypto people again...
Also is it me or are they getting lazier over time, because it used to be "hey, check out this crypto crap we made, it's a great investment totally!!!!", but now it's "don't worry, we'll decentralize over time, we'll fake it until we make it, give us crypto..."
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in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation • • •Please just move on with AGPL for Dendrite, while it's relatively young project - as compared to Synapse, anyway. Server implementations need to be more transparent and gather a supporting framework, and being stuck with Apache is kinda missing out on that front.
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NiceMicro
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Unfortunately going with "permissive" license is not really being generous: it is giving legal justification to others to use your code to exploit users.
As I personally look at Free Software from the "consumer protection" angle, I don't think the so-called "permissive" licenses are ever a good idea.
#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #FOSS
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Hi,
mein technisches English ist zu schlecht.
Wo genau liegt das Problem?
Hatte es so verstanden, dass TownsProtocol auf Ihrer Seite nicht erwähnt, dass es das Matrix Protokoll ist?
BlackPin erwähnt dies dagegen in Ihren Texten.
Oder geht es darum, dass diese Anbieter Matrix nicht finanziell und mit Feedback unterstützen?
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in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation • • •Anecdotally from having seen similar experiences with people using Mastodon like this -- AGPL doesn't STOP people from doing this (cf. Hiveway), but it does make doing it more frustrating for them and more funny for the rest if us (cf. TheJester's thing).
So I'm for it.
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in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation • • •This is a scam lol.
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in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation • • •This could be claiming work of matrix authors as their own:
"Who is behind Towns?
The Towns protocol and app are the work of the members of HNT Labs. HNT is a small group of world-class engineers and product people that believe..."
which nothing in Apache license would allow.
Moral rights violations would still need to be resolved on the relevant court.
OTOH herenotthere.github.io/Docs/do… does mention "During the alpha phase of our product, a modified Matrix server provides the backend"
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