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So basically the question boils down to AGPL requirement to make source code available to users? That shouldn't be a problem at all.
by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago
So basically the question boils down to AGPL requirement to make source code available to users? That shouldn't be a problem at all.
- whateveracct 5y agoApparently it was!
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoLikely, the cause is simple ignorance. Modern developers of certain age just use whatever code they can fork from GitHub, think about licenses later (if ever).
- woodruffw 5y ago> Likely, the cause is simple ignorance. Modern developers of certain age just use whatever code they can fork from GitHub, think about licenses later (if ever). Sure, that's entirely possible. Nobody has attributed malicious intent to them. But the terms of the AGPL are clear.
- kkjjkgjjgg 5y agoThe author of the article phrased it like this: " Once caught in the act, Trump's Group scrambled and took the site down." I think that implies malicious intent ("caught in the act" - you "catch" criminals).
- bink 5y agoThere was a lot else going on at the same time. There were users creating parody accounts for famous politicians and the site was only intended for testing. I think they would've taken it down regardless of the license issue.
- woodruffw 5y agoI don't know. It feels like a factual claim (they were, in fact, caught violating the AGPL) mixed with a pretty standard English idiom. I can see a much more positive reading of that sentence: that the TRUTH engineers rushed to correct their AGPL violation by turning off the service. But that would be just as much of an unjustified interpretation.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoYou mean malicious intent by the author of the article to present the rather mundane situation as a nefarious crime and paint a picture of an evil wrongdoing by a group of obvious scumbags? The language certainly suggests that.
- kkjjkgjjgg 5y agoYes - but I was replying to the claim that nobody accused them of malicious intent. Imo the author of the article tries to frame the actions of the Trump team as malicious.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoYes, exactly, and framing the story like that is malicious.
- whateveracct 5y agomy tiny startup talks to lawyers and uses sense this isn't some casual side project - it's a company!
- woodruffw 5y agoYep, that's precisely it. It's not a particularly onerous requirement, nor is it a hidden one: it's the entire raison d'etre for the AGPL.