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WhatsApp's interoperability agreement doesn't allow GNU (A|L)GPL licenses (developers.facebook.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by starman@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Partner represents and warrants that it shall not introduce into WhatsApp’s Systems or Infrastructure, the Sublicensed Encryption Software, or otherwise make accessible to WhatsApp any viruses or any software licensed under the General Public Licence or any similar licence (e.g. GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL), GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) containing a "copyleft" requirement during performance of the Services.

Partner shall not: (i) combine Sublicensed Encryption Software with any software licensed under any version of or derivative of the GNU General Public License (e.g.; GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL), GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) in any manner that could cause, or could be interpreted or asserted to cause, the Sublicensed Encryption Software or any modifications to the Sublicensed Encryption Software to become subject to the terms of any version of or derivative of the GNU General Public License or other copyleft open source software

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[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 7 months ago

Since I‘m not in the US, my times are a little different but I go vote and I go protest (which is more than most) if stuff is bad. But reading bad things every day sends me into defeatism so I need to keep it away from me so I can stay being productive (not only work but also live and vote)

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

Then you're doing fine 👍 I know many people who don't follow politics because it's theatre, and no world news because it's just depressing. Totally understandable. You haven't given up and still vote, which is good. I can only hope you vote for the good of all, but at least you show up.

Have a good day, mate.

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[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well, thats quite a broad term. As a minority member, I feel responsible to vote for equality and inclusion. Thats not great for those who would like „a strong leader“ or „just let the markets decide“ but I consider going against others‘ opinion less of an offense than going against their personhood.

Edit: you have a good one as well. :) Edit2: do you put that license in manually or automatically?

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

For me, egoistic altruism shaped my voting behavior.

Edit2: do you put that license in manually or automatically?

I'd appreciate a "signature" function in a lemmy frontend client, so until then, it's manual.

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[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 7 months ago

Thats actually a very interesting and healthy take imo. I‘m an altruist from birth and need to take better care of myself. But otherwise I‘m on the same track.

Also, I‘m strongly against the thing they left out (probably to not polarise, which makes the point come across easier), people still trying to get a bigger pie than anybody else.

But I guess both approaches are helpful.