Single-vendor is the new proprietary (fosdem.org)

submitted 8 months ago by Tiuku@sopuli.xyz to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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An interesting talk by Thierry Carrez in FOSDEM.

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[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 7 points 8 months ago

Especially relevant the remarks about Matrix/Element in the Q&A.

[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 5 points 8 months ago

No time to watch rn. I use matrix (not element but synapse which is now also maintained by the element folks). What did they say?

[-] Tiuku@sopuli.xyz 5 points 8 months ago

That while changing the licence to copyleft was an action in the right direction, it also means that they could switch the license again [for worse]. Apparently they hold the copyrights..?

[-] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There was a talk on exactly this at a FOSDEM years ago, and the verdict was that licence changes were prohibitively difficult if the project was openly developed because you need to acquire permission to change the licence from every contributor. This is why some projects (React for example) require the signing of a contract in advance of any PR merge that transfers the ownership of the contribution to "the project".

So, if Matrix is (a) developed openly, allowing contributions from anyone, and (b) doesn't require the signing of a bullshit CLA, I think it's fine.