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Re:Scaling Mastodon Is Impossible by trelane on Monday November 14, 2022 @06:30PM (#33602949)
At least they'd (Microsoft) have to make the changes publicly available, since it's AGPL. So they can't have secret shenanigans that others don't have.
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Re:Scaling Mastodon Is Impossible by doctor_eval on Monday November 14, 2022 @06:43PM (#33603068)
Genuinely don’t understand. Is the ActivityPub protocol AGPL? Is there something stopping MS from just building their own server from scratch?
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Re:Scaling Mastodon Is Impossible by codefreakxff on Monday November 14, 2022 @06:52PM (#33603168)
They would also make a Microsoft owned version of the protocol to support features only their client and server supported
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Re:Scaling Mastodon Is Impossible by sitkack on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:55PM (#33605073)
Why wouldn't they just implement SOAP over JSON?
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Re:Scaling Mastodon Is Impossible by esarbe on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @02:42AM (#33620126)
ActivityPup is an API.

APIs are not protected by copyright.

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Re:Scaling Mastodon Is Impossible by fragmede on Monday November 14, 2022 @06:49PM (#33603139)
The AGPL only applies if they make it available externally though. If they have their own internal instance the AGPL only says that Microsoft employees must be able to access the source code.
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Re:Scaling Mastodon Is Impossible by mr_toad on Monday November 14, 2022 @07:04PM (#33603289)
Microsoft hosts teams for their customers. So if they modified the code all their customers users would be entitled to see it.
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Re:Scaling Mastodon Is Impossible by LinuxBender on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @09:03AM (#33609271)
While I agree with this, I've interfaced with many lawyers that interpret AGPL differently mostly due to following license dependency trees. They nuked any project that went anywhere near AGPL even if the project was internal-only. This was not limited to places I worked either. There are others in my circle that had their projects shot down for using AGPL code. I do not fully grasp the logic the lawyers arrive at. Perhaps they are treating it the same way I treated PCI compliance, in that anything touching it gets infected by the zombie virus and must also be compliant.
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Re:Scaling Mastodon Is Impossible by JAlexoid on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:51PM (#33605057)
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ - It's not AGPL
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