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WhatsApp's interoperability agreement doesn't allow GNU (A|L)GPL licenses (developers.facebook.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Partner represents and warrants that it shall not introduce into WhatsApp’s Systems or Infrastructure, the Sublicensed Encryption Software, or otherwise make accessible to WhatsApp any viruses or any software licensed under the General Public Licence or any similar licence (e.g. GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL), GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)) containing a "copyleft" requirement during performance of the Services.

Partner shall not: (i) combine Sublicensed Encryption Software with any software licensed under any version of or derivative of the GNU General Public License (e.g.; GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL), GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) in any manner that could cause, or could be interpreted or asserted to cause, the Sublicensed Encryption Software or any modifications to the Sublicensed Encryption Software to become subject to the terms of any version of or derivative of the GNU General Public License or other copyleft open source software

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The recent malicious compliance by Meta and Apple goes to show there's no such thing as "good faith" and the EU is doing a bad job by leaving a bunch of loopholes open.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The EU has done a wonderful job by making the DSA which went into effect yesterday. My personal favorite is up to 10% of global revenue per transgression and 20% for repeat offenses.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's great if there is in fact a transgression. My guess is there won't be because of said loopholes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We will see I guess. Feel free to write to your representative. Be the change you want to see.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My representatives are in bed with the corpos. No luck there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Welp, thats pretty bad. Since I get defeatist thoughts when I watch the news, I block them wherever I can, go protest, write complaints, vote and so on. Thats all that I think can be asked of me so I‘ll just go on doing that until morale improves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@haui_lemmy @helenslunch The EU generally has the right idea but is often pretty bad at writing « ironclad » laws. I’m pretty sure most of the people writing these texts have very little experience in tech, and they tend to leave gaping holes that big tech companies are quick to exploit.

Still, in general, they’re doing a solid job at curbing the power and abuses of these companies. It just takes longer than it should to patch the holes!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I agree. Feel free to write a letter to your representative and either offer help with it or tell them how to do it. Be the change you want to see. :)