🧵 The #FreeSoftware / #OpenSource status of #Matrix, #Element and other related projects is in serious trouble. The main company running the ecosystem, @element, will fork the main projects from their previous steward, the @matrix Foundation, make AGPL-3.0 the new default license, and put a #CLA in front of it.

This is a common scheme called Rights-Ratched-Model as coined by @webmink. I see a number of upcoming changes that are bad for user freedom, interoperability and communities:

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