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Lemmy backend is licensed under AGPL. Does it mean that lemmy clients/frontends have to have same license? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by starman@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[–] teri@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah sorry, confused things. It's comes closer to a Mastodon thing. The point is that a big corporation like Facebook does not need to use AGPL code as long as they can just re-implement it. Compared to the total codebase used at Facebook, re-implementing something like lemmy or mastodon does not sound like a big deal. (That's not an argument against using the AGPL)