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Can you explain why? I'm trying to decide between lemmy and kbin and I can't figure out how to judge them.

This is where we would be getting into the ugly background which I don't want to get into here because it's stuff that goes into private conversations and hearsay.

Suffice to say, hlky was absolutely hell-bent on us NOT using the previous AGPL library after we forked it, and used many underhanded means to cause us constant stress and worries. At some point we decided it wasn't worth it.

The point I was mentioning in section 7b is this

> Requiring preservation of specified reasonable legal notices

Given that this didn't appear. I felt it was OK.

> One _can_ fork a AGPLv3 project, but one needs to adhere to the terms.

We had already forked and had kept all the copyrights statements intact. We still ended up having to rewrite...

Hello, lead dev here. Yes there's ugly personal history, but as I said, I don't want to get into a he said/he said discussion because it won't go anywhere. Will just say that it's bad enough that it forced us to rewrite an AGPL library (in which I was personally contributing for months) from scratch instead of reusing it, as we had all the permission to do so. That's how bad it got in the background.

That said, I was under the impression that my actions were License compliant due to section 7b

> Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, for material you add to a covered work, you may (if authorized by the copyright holders of that material) supplement the terms of this License with terms:

> Requiring preservation of specified reasonable legal notices or author attributions in that material or in the Appropriate Legal Notices displayed by works containing it; or

I.e. since that blurb didn't request explicit preservation, it was ok to remove.

Hey there lead dev. The reason we don't contact hlky is because he's extremely hostile and has attempted to sabotage us by taking down components of the AI Horde when he flounced. There's also acts from him against myself personally which make it too traumatic to reach out. Even a mention of his name is instantly raising my stress level. What I mean to say, it's not always so easy to "play nice".

As I said, I tried to stick to the facts in this post so it's easy in isolation to think we're being petty dicks, but there's a reason we had to rewrite a WHOLE AGPL3 ML library from scratch, instead of re-use the existing AGPL3 library we had, because it was associated with hlky.

Hey there, lead dev here. The issue was not brought up informally. It was straight to DMCAs. That person has attempted to sabotage our project before.

I am the creator. Feel free to AMA

To be fair, this repo is not FOSS

The stable horde is a crowdsourced distributed cluster of Stable Diffusion workers: https://stablehorde.net

We recently passed 200K generated images, for a total of 4 terapixelsteps.

As people are joining, similar questions are being asked, so I wanted to finally put some answers done.

I am the creator of the Stable Horde, show AMA.