Yep, and also support services. A service that made it easy for you to host Mastodon (and lasted longer than 3 years); or a Mastodon instance that had a Patreon attached.
We'll fight like hell to make sure these get excluded, but given the battle over excluding SMEs, it would be a tough fight. And the chilling effect would be considerable — you can expect to get automatic legal letters from rightsholders claiming that you were already liable unless you paid them licenses, and the sort of takedown blackmailing you see happen on YouTube. Even if you're legally in the right, it takes a lot for a volunteer operator to stand up to that kind of intimidation.
We'll fight like hell to make sure these get excluded, but given the battle over excluding SMEs, it would be a tough fight. And the chilling effect would be considerable — you can expect to get automatic legal letters from rightsholders claiming that you were already liable unless you paid them licenses, and the sort of takedown blackmailing you see happen on YouTube. Even if you're legally in the right, it takes a lot for a volunteer operator to stand up to that kind of intimidation.