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The backend was already open sourced months ago: https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server

Credit to Daniel Supernault, creator of Pixelfed.

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[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

That's great! Hopefully it shows up on F-Droid sometime soon

[–] panosalevropoulos@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Quick reminder that source without a license is source-available, not FOSS. Though I believe Daniel just forgot to add one.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Someone has already made an issue (Repo is missing a license) so hopefully that'll be resolved soon.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

He is a very busy man at the moment, as you can probably imagine. But yes we should make sure the license is included in the coming days to make it truly free. He still has yet to add documentation, but said on Mastodon that is coming soon.

[–] astro_ray@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago

The latest open issue is that a license is missing

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Be real cool if registration was open.

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Ah, looks like waitlist was opened today.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don’t see a license? Please provide evidence or delete the post.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I never claimed it's FOSS, license is to be included by the creator. If it is part of the same project as the backend, it may be GNU AGPL-3.

If that's not satisfactory, let me know and I will put (Source Available) in the title.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We take a hard line on open source in !opensource@lemmy.ml. “Source available” software won’t do.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Okay, title has been updated to clarify the situation. At the moment, it's neither confirmed source-available only nor confirmed FOSS. Hopefully that clears it up and nobody's confused.