Idk violating gpl isn’t hard you just have to think of it as some hippy bullshit without teeth instead of what it actually is: a pretty radical legal framework for intellectual property to be distributed freely that has plenty of teeth and a strong precedent
I mean the fact that they managed to run it in a way that was illegal was pretty uniquely impressive.
What’s the background there? Illegal…?
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/29/22752850/mastodon-trump-truth-social-network-open-source-gab-legal-notice
Idk violating gpl isn’t hard you just have to think of it as some hippy bullshit without teeth instead of what it actually is: a pretty radical legal framework for intellectual property to be distributed freely that has plenty of teeth and a strong precedent
I like GPL, but I thought it was basically just a contract.
who pays for the lawyers? Unless you have more money than your opponent nothing has much teeth in the US.
This is from 2021. What happened? I assume nothing?
They quietly complied with the requirements