This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

Original Announcement thread

  • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOPM
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    1 year ago

    I’m no legal expert, so I don’t know what updating the license entails, and why you wouldn’t as the creator be able to change the license freely as you see fit.

    • silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      every contributor has independently licensed the portion of the code they contributed under the current license. so most larger FOSS projects require a Contributor License Assignment to the org managing that project such that changes like these are legally feasible. otherwise you have to track down every person who made a one line change or risk getting sued for copyright infringement.

      when you work for a corporation this license assignment is a standard part of the employment contract for this exact reason. our copyright system is deeply broken.