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this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2023
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@graphito
wait what?
https://github.com/beeper/self-host
> Beeper Clients
> Native iOS and Android clients (closed source forks of Element iOS and Android)
Mac OS, Windows and Linux clients (closed source forks of Element Web/Desktop)
How can an Apache-2.0 licensed project be forked as closed source?
Maybe they agreed on different license (paid for it) with element directly
@graphito
that would be stealing the code from all of the other contributors. I don't see any signoff to allow them to double-license these contributions.
Element is in full right to multi license their code
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-licensing
@graphito
emphasis on *their*
Other contributors are sending their code under this agreement https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md#sign-off
That's great that you spent some time researching this -- good job, I didn't know about this caveat, thank you for informing me. However, I have no affiliation with the company and recommend to ask about this issue from Beeper team directly.