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…

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 1 points 1 year ago

If you have made no changes to it, then you can just use the docker image. You don't even need to download the source code.

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