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Alex // nytpu alex at nytpu.com
Mon Oct 25 23:59:33 BST 2021
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On 2021-10-26 12:20AM, almaember wrote:
He merely owns the website/capsule it's hosted on. Taking and hosting
it, or even rewording it to avoid copyright issues, is a relatively
simple task.If I take a copy of whitehouse.gov and replace all the text with "lolthe government's dumb" does that make it the official whitehouse.govsite? Solderpunk hosts the canonical version (which you said yourselfis the one everyone follows) which means they're the one that "owns"the Gemini specification.
GitLab doesn't own the GitLab specification just because it's hosted
there, and neither does the operator of this mailing list own this
message.And yet I both host and own nytpu.com.
Yes hosting =/= ownership, however in most cases (on Gemini at least)hosting *is* equivalent to ownership.
And, lastly this is not an open source project per se. More like a set
of conventions projects agree on. In other words, a standard.I don't recall anyone anywhere ever claiming that the Gemini Protocolitself is a software project; it is an open standard. That doesn't meanit magically belongs to everyone and no one should have control of it.There are criticisms to be had about most standards organizations andyet I've never seen anyone (other than you, rather) claim that thestandards body shouldn't have control over the standards they maintainand publish.
Look at the LZMA Specification, it is entirely maintained an publishedby one guy (it hasn't been updated since 2015 either). By your logic,shouldn't he have no rights to it and instead it should never bemodified ever. It's public domain so you could create and modify yourown right now. Yet veryone would ignore your hypothetical version andstill use his canonical version that he owns and hosts, and nobody otherthan you would dispute any future changes he made that diverged fromyour version.
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