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.

Update: wefwef now includes the AGPL license in the repo. Thank you to the Lemmy user who reported it to the author and to the author for quickly resolving the issue :)

    • gkd@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      After reviewing this, I’ve updated the license for Memmy. Frankly had no idea, good idea to let people know like you said and just kindly inform them through GitHub or otherwise.

      • Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        2 years ago

        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?

        • gkd@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 years ago

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

  • fafff@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    File an issue in their repos, sometimes people (understandably) do not understand licencing very well — or it might be they were granted an exception.

    If that fails you can contact the library author and the repositories who host the code.

    • fulano@lemmy.eco.br
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      2 years ago

      This.

      Not all violations are ill-intended, and most amaetur devs aren’t specialists in licensing.