Max Mehl on Nostr: 🧵 The #FreeSoftware/#OpenSource status of #Matrix, #Element and other related ...

🧵 The #FreeSoftware/#OpenSource status of #Matrix, #Element and other related projects is in serious trouble. The main company running the ecosystem, npub1v7j7dtmgl6a3mhh3mhltcvlpzah8j9kh8scj7759t96mclrld44sehmcl4 (npub1v7j…mcl4), will fork the main projects from their previous steward, the @matrix@mastodon.matrix Foundation, make AGPL-3.0 the new default license, and put a #CLA in front of it.

This is a common scheme called Rights-Ratched-Model as coined by npub1evueeq5nd8889t6hlpgssh3x45a2q4sv9trffrux3jssamshwecqrzuf5t (npub1evu…uf5t). I see a number of upcoming changes that are bad for user freedom, interoperability and communities:

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