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I'm building a Lemmy/Kbin clone, using Python (Flask framework). I'm about 3 months in so the basics are there but it's definitely still half-baked..
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That sounds awesome. What license will it be under? I think the world really needs a Lemmy implementation under a more permissive license than the AGPL.
My first instinct is to go for AGPL but the whole licensing debate isn't something I've ever really engaged with so I'm not really making an informed decision about that.
What's the advantages of a more permissive license?
Basically, Corpos can use/copy your code launch TruthSocialv2 and not have to share their changes/contributions.
That wouldn't be cool. At all.
I'd prefer to go in the other direction (i.e. away from permissive) and add a 'no fascists or tankies or genocide' clause to AGPL, actually. ChatGPT assures me that would be bad and possibly illegal (?!) tho, so I might just end up putting stuff in the code of conduct which achieves the same ends.
Fuck corps.