Gregory's Server@michal @homegrown
Makes perfect sense to me that he'd want to retain some rights since his name is on the tin 🤷
Even famously concensus-driven places like wikipedia just cannot exist without a 'high court' that has final say in what gets published and who gets banned
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  Indeed, great point! This is another reason to talk about the Fediverse rather than Mastodon, no one has trademarked Fediverse. |
@Cleopatra @michal
It makes sense from his point of view legally, but at an emotional level it conflicts with the open decentralised ethos of the Fediverse, where no one owns the network.
This is just a guess, but I don't think most people realise that the work "mastodon" is a trademark owned by a central legal entity?
The good news is you can avoid all this by choosing a domain name that doesn't mention that word.