Rimu recently started a new rant thread. I copied the response of the person they had targeted and in less than a minute Rimu had deleted the comment.
This is the comment Rimu did not want people being able to see: https://feddit.uk/post/53824748/26875911
This is the thread I shared it on: https://feddit.uk/post/53824747


This has already been debated on the internet and I’m not an expert so I’m giving up. I guess it boils down to what is a “copyright”, and if the source in this case (PyLova) has a copright notice that needs to be copied over. That’s beyond my expertise.
Edit:
Read this if you want to, but I'm not completely convinced that I'm right
Thanks. I’m trying to understand where you’re seeing the requirement to give attribution still.
I read this section as "if you use code from an AGPL project (PyLova in this case), then you need to:
a) have a dated commit on the project that is using it (PieFed)
b) keep the license the same
c) the entire project (PieFed) now falls under this license (it does)
d) have legal notices about it being AGPL, unless the original source (PieFed, then PyLova, then PieFed again) don’t have them.
Then there’s a paragraph about aggregate projects and how the AGPL license doesn’t automatically spread to all parts of those projects.
So I’m still confused where it’s required to say “Mia was the author”. All it’s saying is “this is AGPL code – keep it AGPL and make the code available for others to see.”
Oh, I didn’t realize you meant the attribution. Section 5 is about declaring changes. Attribution comes from including the original license, which should have a line like
"Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>", per the AGPL text.It doesn’t look like PyLova changed this when forking, because the top of the license file attributes the project to the FSF, and the bottom of the file attributes it to rimu. So both projects screwed this part up, because piefed should contain a line like “portions of this software copyright 2026 rimu atkinson”, and after picking the changes from PyLova, piefed should have “portions of this software copyright 2026” whoever is the author of the portions used.