Behind the X owner’s trolling is a years long obsession with the internet’s favorite encyclopedia, says Depths of Wiki creator Annie Rauwerda.
  • Thelaststandn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I don’t really know the legalitys, but there’s a few things in elons way:

    1. Whoever has control over Lemmy would have to be willing to sell it, pretty sure Elon couldn’t take over lemmy like he did twitter
    2. It’s open source, how/can does one even turn something like lemmy closed-source?
    3. If it was made closed source by Elon, what of the forks that already exist? Can anything be does to threaten their ongoing existence?

    I don’t know the answers to 2&3, but I’m pretty sure 1 holds true; Elon can’t buy something if the owner refuses to sell.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Lemmy cannot be made closed source due to the irrevocable perpetual license and the viral nature of GPL licenses, especially AGPL.