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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 20:59:08 JST mcc

   @rcombs If Mastodon gGMBH has not granted a license to federated servers, and I delete the comment, and some server somewhere continues to host the content, I send a takedown to the federated server, they take it down because they have no grounds on which to continue mirroring it. Mastodon gGmbH doesn't have to do anything, everyone is happy.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 20:59:07 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @mcc @rcombs i do not think you should have a means to revoke a license to store and display your posts. i think that sending takedown requests the way you propose to here is essentially legal harassment

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jun-2025 20:59:08 JST mcc

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     @rcombs If Mastodon gGmbH, in consultation with their lawyers, concludes they need a legal means of revoking the implicit or explicit license granted to federated servers, then: They could write one. They have a lawyer, apparently. Instead, at the moment, they are amending their license to grant an irrevokable license from me to Mastodon gGmbH, but not writing a means for me to revoke use by themselves or (though I don't think this part is necessary) federated servers, and that creates a problem