Did PieFed 'steal code' from Pylova? Let's look at what happened - PieFed
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This is my first open source project, apart from tiny bits of code that no one ever paid any attention to. Maybe I don’t know how to do open source properly, maybe I made a mistake here. Let’s find out. A few months ago, someone made a new fork of PieFed, which they called ‘Pylova‘. […]

This is my first open source project, apart from tiny bits of code that no one ever paid any attention to. Maybe I don’t know how to do open source properly, maybe I made a mistake here. Let’s find out.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I don’t have an answer but just want to mention im appreciative of the open discussion for those of us who might learn something. From my simplistic knowledge of open source I thought gpl just required providing source and being gpl licensed. I actually though agpl was actually more permissive to be used in propietary software and was mostly supposed to be used with libraries and such.

    • Kierunkowy74@kbin.social@piefed.zipEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      You have confused it with LGPL (Lesser GPL). AGPL is meant to force site admins to publish source code also to site visitors (as, technically speaking, only an instance admin is an user of software like PieFed or Mastodon)

      • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        thank you. you know I think I saw lgpl and then started seeing agpl without understanding it and thought it was lgpl.