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by bean-weevil 521 days ago
It continues to be developed by matrix https://github.com/element-hq/dendrite
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Yes, as open source but under a different license. Now, I don't dislike the AGPL, but think a healthy FLOSS community has a variety of licenses. However, freedom 0 is important. https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-doesnt-anyone-give-a-crap-... I feel like not all software under the same copyleft license is the same. Mastodon is under the AGPL, and I think people are comfortable treating it as a component alongside differently licensed projects, on a subdomain, such as https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon and many others where people use Mastodon for their ActivityPub feed on a subdomain of their own domain. From what I've seen of Element I think they'd throw a fit if people used Element's AGPL projects in the same way, especially if it was made convenient by a cloud provider, while still keeping it separate (such as in a different container).
Do you have examples?