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Re:Hiveway.io rips off of Mastodon and slaps a blockchain on... by DeadSuperHero on Sunday March 04, 2018 @05:38PM (#16517230)
Thanks for linking this; unfortunately it doesn't exactly do a whole lot for this project or how its PR is posturing things.
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Re:Hiveway.io rips off of Mastodon and slaps a blockchain on... by UncleEntity on Sunday March 04, 2018 @09:48PM (#16518362)
It does, in fact, refute the "rips off" claim.

Section 5: a) The work must carry prominent notices stating that you modified it, and giving a relevant date.

And a (summary) reading of the license has no mention that retaining branding is required for "Conveying Modified Source Versions" and is probably a copyright violation if they did it.

The only thing I really see they did "wrong" is pulling commits without retaining the original committers ID and I'm not even sure that's even against the AGPL since that information would be lost if they distributed the sources as a tarball (which is perfectly fine).

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