I found two apps that seem to be violating the AGPL license. They both use the AGPL-licensed lemmy-js-client library, which means the apps themselves should also use the same license (which is the whole purpose of Copyleft). But they aren't. I don't know if Lemmy developers and contributors are aware of this.

The apps:

https://github.com/ando818/lemmy-ui-svelte - Apache license

https://github.com/aeharding/wefwef - MIT license

What should we do about this as a community? I informed one of the app's developers about this and it doesn't seem like they care. I wonder if some of the proprietary apps that are being developed right now also rely on this library.

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[–] thefool@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe it's up to the license holder to enforce it.

So notifying the respective projects can't hurt, but if they refuse to comply, and the copyright owner of lemmy-js-client doesn't care, then the code is probably licensed incorrectly

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean if you really wanted to enforce it, anyone who contributed to Lemmy-js-client can submit a DMCA takedown. But that would be beyond silly, since most people are just trying to build cool things and don't want to enter a licensing drama.

Best course of action is to point out the license error and let downstream figure it out.