What should we do about license violations in apps that rely on work of Lemmy contributors?

Open Source@lemmy.ml – 83 points – 1 years ago

I found two apps that seem to be violating the AGPL license. They both use the AGPL-licensed lemmy-js-client library, which means the apps themselves should also use the same license (which is the whole purpose of Copyleft). But they aren't. I don't know if Lemmy developers and contributors are aware of this.

The apps:

https://github.com/ando818/lemmy-ui-svelte - Apache license

https://github.com/aeharding/wefwef - MIT license

What should we do about this as a community? I informed one of the app's developers about this and it doesn't seem like they care. I wonder if some of the proprietary apps that are being developed right now also rely on this library.

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Thanks for changing it so quickly :). Your app looks very cool, btw. I don't use iOS, but I will start recommending it to others.

Edit: just noticed that it's for Android too. But I assume it's not in the store yet?

I think I got stuck in review hell. I resubmitted a build today.

Could you submit it to fdroid too since it is GPL now ;)