Post #2239961
2026-04-22 09:30 UTC
@hopland@snabelen.no @lislegaard@sonomu.club @tante@tldr.nettime.org Do militaries care about software licensing at all? Element and Nextcloud licenses are violated for sure when their code is incorporated into proprietary suites with EULA and another organization mentioned as the developer in the copyright footers.
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@hopland@snabelen.no 2026-04-22 10:47
@makepost@mastodon.art @lislegaard@sonomu.club @tante@tldr.nettime.org well that's quite the question, and the answer is always the copyright holders ability to litigate. To get contributions back if it's copy left code, i.e GPL code? Not unless it is somehow leaked, tied to a department and upheld by the courts. To prevent the distribution of libre code? A state could pass legislation making it illegal - let's say the "digital McCarthy act". As always, it depends upon jurisdiction, law & upholding of law.