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by Jtsummers 1703 days ago
> AFAICT, unless one of the Mastodon authors gets involved, this is not going to amount to much.

That's actually irrelevant as I understand the FOSS license issues around GPL and AGPL. You, as an individual, are entitle to the source code of GPL'd and AGPL'd software (under various circumstances). Suppose I sell or otherwise provide you a program that's based on GPL'd code but only in compiled form. You can request the source from me and I'm obligated to provide it, the original programmers never have to get involved.
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aazaa 1703 days ago
Not from what I understand. Your copyright (by default) gives you standing. If you hold no copyright, you have no standing to claim copyright infringement.
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guerrilla 1703 days ago
It seems like you may be right [1]

1. https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/52/what-can-s...

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