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1. Bèr Kessels Bradley M. Kuhn , Richard Fontana

   @fontana @bkuhn, The idea is to use MIT for better interoperatability/exchange w. existing Ruby-libs. While keeping core AGPL.

   Sunday, 19-Dec-10 20:55:44 UTC from web
   • Rahul Sundaram

     #disapora demanding full copyright control and a broad patent grant http://ur1.ca/1nc78 #fail

     Thursday, 16-Sep-10 22:54:42 UTC
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   • Bradley M. Kuhn Diaspora

     So, sure looks like @joindiaspora is planning to go #Open_Core w/ #Diaspora. & people thought I was being alarmist. http://ur1.ca/1nc78

     Thursday, 16-Sep-10 23:35:22 UTC
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   • Simon Phipps Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn Either that or they are badly advised (and have not read my article) or do not want a community.

     Thursday, 16-Sep-10 23:37:15 UTC
   • Rahul Sundaram Simon Phipps

     @webmink Many bad signs at this point

     Thursday, 16-Sep-10 23:38:24 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Simon Phipps , Diaspora

     @webmink, we know @joindiaspora has been advised the entire summer by VCs, so it's no real surprise. VCs ♥ #Open_Core. #Diaspora

     Thursday, 16-Sep-10 23:40:30 UTC
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     Ian McEwen Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn yet another reason for me to stick with #statusnet :)

     Thursday, 16-Sep-10 23:40:37 UTC
   • Karsten Wade Bradley M. Kuhn , Simon Phipps

     @bkuhn @webmink *long sigh*

     Thursday, 16-Sep-10 23:42:42 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Ian McEwen

     @ianmcorvidae, well, it doesn't matter so much. #Diaspora is currently 6,500 lines of #Ruby. It's more or less not even worth forking.

     Thursday, 16-Sep-10 23:42:48 UTC
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   • Osama Khalid Rahul Sundaram

     @rahulsundaram it's just wrong. it's sad to hear this. :(

     Thursday, 16-Sep-10 23:49:21 UTC
   • Karsten Wade Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn "But the power of the BRAND!" Me, I like the opportunity to have memetic replies, e.g. "Remember Diaspora?"

     Thursday, 16-Sep-10 23:51:14 UTC
   • Osama Khalid Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn what VC? have they announced something somewhere?

     Friday, 17-Sep-10 01:21:39 UTC
   • Kenneth Wayne Foy, Jr Rahul Sundaram

     @rahulsundaram oh shit, that's crazy. what a bummer

     Friday, 17-Sep-10 01:52:22 UTC
   • Mike Linksvayer Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn 6500 agile lines. Agile * open source=exponential quality, throughput, features. Custom widgets=no need to fork! Duh. Get w/Web 2.0!

     Friday, 17-Sep-10 03:26:04 UTC
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   • Carlo Piana Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn strictly speaking, having a CA doesn't mean ->#Open_core. Though it's suspicious and sec.4 is BAD omen. I'd not sign it

     Friday, 17-Sep-10 07:37:35 UTC
   • Daniele Gobbetti Ostatus.org , Rahul Sundaram

     @rahulsundaram that's sad. Anyone knows if socialriver is going the same route? I surely hope not! !ostatus

     Friday, 17-Sep-10 07:43:52 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Carlo Piana

     @carlopiana, there is absolutely no reason to have a copyright assignment of that nature w/ no promise back unless #Open_Corr is planned.

     Friday, 17-Sep-10 09:32:19 UTC
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   • Bradley M. Kuhn Diaspora

     The #Diaspora irony is: @joindiaspora 's © assignment regime treats developers in a similarly deplorable way as #Facebook treats its users.

     Friday, 17-Sep-10 15:09:07 UTC
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   • Luke Slater Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn and facebook treats its developers better from what I can see -.-

     Friday, 17-Sep-10 15:10:13 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn GNU Affero General Public Licence

     #Diaspora developer responded to me. Claims main reason for © assignment is they are considering abandoning !AGPL. Trying to change his mind

     Friday, 17-Sep-10 16:18:47 UTC
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   • Christopher Allan Webber Bradley M. Kuhn

     ♻ @bkuhn: #Diaspora developer responded to me. Claims main reason for © assignment is they are considering abandoning #AGPL.

     Friday, 17-Sep-10 16:21:32 UTC
   • Christopher Allan Webber Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn Did they indicate what to?

     Friday, 17-Sep-10 16:21:39 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn The GNU General Public License , Richard Fontana

     @fontana,#Diaspora may switch to !GPL to "help w/ contributions";assignment allows exclusive relicensing control to any FSF-approved license

     Friday, 17-Sep-10 16:23:52 UTC
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   • Lord Drachenblut Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn abandon agpl for what?

     Friday, 17-Sep-10 16:24:38 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn GNU Affero General Public Licence , Richard Fontana

     @fontana, he said nothing about the license of the alpha. Since they aren't bound by !AGPL themselves, they can license it any way they like

     Friday, 17-Sep-10 16:26:59 UTC
   • Craig Andrews Daisychain , Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn I'm not surprised one bit - seriously, did anyone not see this coming? Let's all contribute to !GnuSocial and forget about Diaspora

     Saturday, 18-Sep-10 05:06:34 UTC
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   • idoric Richard Fontana

     @fontana I don't know if it's correlated, but: http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/commits/master/COPYRIGHT or any later version of the AGPL

     Tuesday, 21-Sep-10 15:40:39 UTC
   • Rob Myers

     @berkes: Open Crust? ;-)

     Sunday, 19-Dec-10 21:07:28 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

     @berkes, yeah, we know what the idea is because we read the #Diaspora ©LA. That's, in fact, the issue we're discussing (cc: @fontana)

     Sunday, 19-Dec-10 22:21:30 UTC
   • Bèr Kessels Bradley M. Kuhn

     @bkuhn: But, what is wrong about that then? I don't see why so many are so negative about it.

     Monday, 20-Dec-10 10:01:44 UTC