If one hosts a Lemmy instance, do they need to also host, and/or link to the source code even if they have made no changes to it?
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/9588905
Lemmy is licensed under the AGPLv3. I don't want to rely solely on my own legal interpretation of the license, so I'm wondering if anyone has any explicit knowledge on the matter.
As an aside, am I correct in assuming that, if someone does make changes to the source code, they must host, and link to it?
EDIT (2023-09-27T22:22Z): I am just now seeing that at the bottom of a Lemmy instance's site, there is a link that says "Code". It appears that this is handled automatically.
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If it’s truly unmodified it doesn’t matter where it is hosted, just that it is correct.
It doesn't have to be referenced on the site that uses it?
If you remove that link, wouldn’t you therefore have modified the code?
Philosophy aside, I mean, who cares about an extra outbound link? Lemmy is a social link aggregator whose entire purpose is to have outbound links. That one link isn’t going to shift the needle on your instance’s SEO…
If you have made no changes to it, then you can just use the docker image. You don't even need to download the source code.