• 0 Posts
  • 45 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 15th, 2023

help-circle


  • If you want to release your app under the gpl and are not sure whether you are allowed to on the apple app store you can always dual license your app, for example proprietary and gpl. That way you can have it on the app store without legal problems and it can still be F(L)OSS.

    However, I have never heard of any legal trouble for releasing gpl apps, so I dont think anybody cares that its technically questionable. Thats an open legal question that no court has answered and I dont think they ever will.













  • Well, Matrix is all of that already, it uses its own protocol also called matrix, but its properly federated(unlike bluesky) and its open source. It also has a big userbase. The Matrix protocol is seen as a honorary member of the Fediverse. I think using activitypub may be a bad fit for real time messaging, so them using their own protocol makes sense. There are also XMPP server and clients, who do similar things to matrix, also federated and open source, however they are more like Whatsapp/Telegram etc.