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Sure, capitulated, or developers did not inform them, the notice did, and they complied.

Given the short timeline, couldn't it just be an honest mistake?

My point in the reply was to followup on events, the fact they "capitulated" was left out.

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> developers did not inform them

That's not how this works. Mastodon has an AGPL license on their repo. The burden is on you to read and follow the license. If your devs don't tell you they were illegally ripping code then you need better devs. The burden still falls on you.

Especially when their so called "Technical Team" purports to have experience from 2 dozen different established tech companies.

That's exactly how this works, the burden did fall on them, and they corrected the mistake.

You enforce your license, people comply. Ideally they know to comply in the first place, but a letter isn't too much trouble to inform them.

Only if they defy that should anyone hold ill will.

If a vendor creating IP/code for your company violates a license, your company violates the license. It can even be as simple as a contractor using an image that they don't have a license for. If they upload the image on your website/use it anywhere public, you are liable. Recently had a client that had to pay out $30k because one of their contractors did exactly that.

This is very basic stuff and makes me wonder if you've ever worked in a vendor/client relationship before.

The account you're responding to is named "hunterb123", so they may not be reading and responding in earnest.

UPDATE: As expected, they proved my point in their response "I'd just worry about the content of my post and not about my name or laptops."

I'd just worry about the content of my post and not about my name or laptops.

There's only one side of bias in this current conversation, anger towards anyone including dev firms that help Trump.

Most likely they're new to this scene, didn't know or weren't informed, then they corrected it without dispute. Non story really.

UPDATE: Who are you yelling at? Everyone can read my joke, as well as the explanation of my point of view, which you haven't addressed...

You're proving my point attacking me and not what I'm saying.

"When the debate is lost slander becomes the tool of the loser"

Yes, and they learned that they violated it and corrected it by hosting the above source. What's the issue?

As you said this happens all time by companies even you worked for, why get bent out of shape if they corrected it?

Do you blow up this much for other companies or is it bias?

Why are you defending a company who has raised over $1 billion in funding and is executing so poorly? Or is it bias?

I'm not defending the company, I'm applying Hanlon's razor to the situation involving the GPL licensing.

I'm not an investor in the company nor do I have any interest to invest. I just think you guys were being biased in assuming malice as well as blowing it out of proportion.

Your bias is due to your hatred of Trump and everything he touches. That's why you were so aggressive in your critiques against even the developers Trump's company employed.

Me not picking up a pitchfork in your witch hunt is not me being biased, it's you being a lunatic...

The license is very clearly included in the code they originally stole and tried to pass off as their own. This wasn't a short timeline as they'd been including it in investment decks for quite some time before release. This is super basic copyright and licensing stuff. And something that a legitimate company with nearly a billion dollars in funding should know.

Given that they want to be taken seriously as a major social media network and public company, you'd think they'd actually do some development of their own rather than just copying another project.

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