Videos from the 2020 Copyleft Conference

Posted May 4, 2020 17:58 UTC (Mon) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Videos from the 2020 Copyleft Conference by Cyberax
Parent article: Videos from the 2020 Copyleft Conference

Way to move the goalposts there.

...Mastadon (and the rest of the activitypub ecosystem) may not be your cup of tea, but it is decidedly non-trivial.

(Or do you only consider something "successful" or "serious" when its userbase is hits nine digits?)

Videos from the 2020 Copyleft Conference

Posted May 4, 2020 18:06 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

A successful project is something that has an impact, not necessarily with the raw number of users. I guess it needs to be at least noticeable in the area it serves. Example: Blender - it's now widely used in animation industry.

So far Mastodon has is basically a large hobbyist project for bored coders, if it disappears almost nobody would notice this.

But OK, whatever. Let's say that there are two large AGPL-only projects: Mastodon and nextCloud. I guess it's "Mission Accomplished" for AGPL?

Videos from the 2020 Copyleft Conference

Posted May 4, 2020 18:20 UTC (Mon) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> So far Mastodon has is basically a large hobbyist project for bored coders, if it disappears almost nobody would notice this.

While what you say is probably true, I doubt their choice of software license will have anything to do with it.

> But OK, whatever. Let's say that there are two large AGPL-only projects: Mastodon and nextCloud. I guess it's "Mission Accomplished" for AGPL?

Many years ago, I deliberately chose to _not_ use AGPL for one of my projects, for many of the reasons mentioned in this thread. I share the opinion that the AGPL is only really useful as a poison pill.