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Yup, open source projects say it loudly and proudly, and GPL projects are obligated to lol
Seems though from https://ramble.pw/f/ramble/94/-/comment/211 that it is based on PostMill which is open source...
Seems Raddle is built on PostMill too, and judging from its Wiki it is a bit more open about where it comes from etc - https://raddle.me/wiki and has a Tor node address
Ahh, excellent find. Postmill uses the zlib licence which states:
One could argue, that by not saying that they're running postmill on their frontpage, they're "missrepresenting the origin" 🤔
Yes I've actually asked them too on that same link whether they are passing the improvements back to PostMill. The absolute worst is using and building on an open source project, and not giving anything back (not even the credit). Thanks for that license detail as well, as I can bring that up. Raddle (not to be confused with Ramble) is very clear that they are using PostMill and state that also on their footers.
Interesting though in zlib: "you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgement in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required". Bit sad as it does not seem to require passing improvements back nor explicitly mentioning PostMill, jut not to misrepresent that you wrote it all from scratch.
That was one reason why I stopped using Vivaldi browser - although I loved it, it was very distasteful to me to see something built on top of open source, but not passing back the improvements at all.
Yeah, it is distasteful. The GPL is why Linux is bigger than BSD; forced cooperation is better for everyone.