Lee Duna to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months agoMastodon founder touts Threads' federation, saying it makes his X rival 'a far more attractive option'techcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square168fedilinkarrow-up1363arrow-down115cross-posted to: fediverse_press@lemmy.world
arrow-up1348arrow-down1external-linkMastodon founder touts Threads' federation, saying it makes his X rival 'a far more attractive option'techcrunch.comLee Duna to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months agomessage-square168fedilinkcross-posted to: fediverse_press@lemmy.world
minus-square@AustralianSimon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoThere is no licensing in the protocol so anything you put out there is free. https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-activitypub-20180123/
minus-square@jeffhykin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-211 months agoIf we serve licensed content over ssh or HTTPS it’s still licensed. Protocols don’t change the legal requirements of the data. Warner Bros will still sue if one of their movies is hosted on a server using the activity pub protocol.
There is no licensing in the protocol so anything you put out there is free.
https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-activitypub-20180123/
If we serve licensed content over ssh or HTTPS it’s still licensed. Protocols don’t change the legal requirements of the data. Warner Bros will still sue if one of their movies is hosted on a server using the activity pub protocol.