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Not sure if the backlash got to them or they got word of potential legal issues caused by doing this, but I can see their GitHub page and its associated reposit
by CM30 4mo ago
Not sure if the backlash got to them or they got word of potential legal issues caused by doing this, but I can see their GitHub page and its associated repositories just fine now:
https://github.com/w-social-eu https://github.com/w-social-eu
But I do kinda wonder the legality of this sort of move anyway. If other people contributed code and didn't agree to some terms of service saying their work would become the property of the project owner, would it even be legal to make it closed source under a different license?
- tancop 4mo agobluesky is mit/apache so they can legally make a closed source fork. what they cant do is sue people who reupload any version before they went closed, even if they used a copyright assignment cla because neither of the licenses can be revoked.
- fp64 4mo agoThere's no much there? A fork of some component where the only changes are some lines in config, and a bunch of shell scripts for a docker image?
- CM30 4mo agoI suspect they didn't actually make many changes at all. Their product is literally a rebranded version of Bluesky, to the point the original test login didn't even change the background image or text.
- fp64 4mo agoThey at least need to add the ID verification somehow to the backend, which is why I'd be really curious seeing how that is implemented