If one hosts a Lemmy instance, do they need to also host, and/or link to the source code even if they have made no changes to it? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kalcifer@lemm.ee to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/9588905

Lemmy is licensed under the AGPLv3. I don't want to rely solely on my own legal interpretation of the license, so I'm wondering if anyone has any explicit knowledge on the matter.

As an aside, am I correct in assuming that, if someone does make changes to the source code, they must host, and link to it?

EDIT (2023-09-27T22:22Z): I am just now seeing that at the bottom of a Lemmy instance's site, there is a link that says "Code". It appears that this is handled automatically.

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[-] AProfessional@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If it’s truly unmodified it doesn’t matter where it is hosted, just that it is correct.

[-] Kalcifer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It doesn't have to be referenced on the site that uses it?

[-] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 3 points 1 year ago

If you remove that link, wouldn’t you therefore have modified the code?

Philosophy aside, I mean, who cares about an extra outbound link? Lemmy is a social link aggregator whose entire purpose is to have outbound links. That one link isn’t going to shift the needle on your instance’s SEO…

this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2023

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