The new Mammoth app is a much simpler take on Mastodon
www.theverge.com
Mammoth is definitely one of the best-looking fediverse apps you’ll find.
        • woelkchen@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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          11 months ago

          I’ve read CONTRIBUTING.md and unless I’ve missed a line by accident, there is no CLA for contributions, so with the first non-trivial 3rs party contribution the entire code base is AGPL with no way to relicense unless it’s negotiated with said contributor.

            • woelkchen@lemmy.worldMEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              The (A)GPL has no problems with the app store. It merely requires that users must be able to install altered versions and that’s certainly possible. It’s the app store policies by Apple that forbid GPL apps.

              Missing a CLA seems like an oversight, releasing the public code under a license forbidden by Apple’s terms is most likely a deliberate choice to block competing app store submissions. They’d just use LGPLv2.1, Apache License 2, or so.

              • dukk@programming.devEnglish
                1·
                11 months ago

                From the README:

                Feel free to take a look around. We are not yet taking patches as we still have a little bit of tidying up to do. When we do, there will be a contributor license agreement.

                So yeah, looks like there will be a CLA.

                • woelkchen@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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                  11 months ago

                  I don’t think Apple’s terms are problematic.

                  The VLC people had to contact many authors to relicense libVLC to LGPLv2.1 because it would otherwise not be compliant to Apple’s terms. Surely the details are documented somewhere.