TerryMathews@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•If one hosts a Lemmy instance, do they need to also host, and/or link to the source code even if they have made no changes to it?English
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1 year agoI’ll be the heretic here, but so far as I know you are only required to make source available when you distribute binaries. And for that matter, it doesn’t even have to be online just available upon request unless you’re using a derivative GPL that added online access as a clause.
I highly doubt the users of a web interface are required to be given access to source. There are multiple GPL-licensed web servers (I am well aware Apache is not btw) and I’ve never seen one embed a code link on every page.
Tl;Dr: Lemmy does it, but I believe it’s not required. Modify away if you so choose.
If you punch someone on the nose, you can’t expect sympathy when they punch back. This isn’t going to produce the result Hamas was going for.