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The Streams repository contains the latest generation of free, open-source, decentralised, [[Special:MyLanguage/Nomadic Identity|nomadic]] [[Special:MyLanguage/Fediverse|Fediverse]] server software. It was created in October of 2021 as a fork of [[Special:MyLanguage/The Zotlabs projects#Roadhouse|Roadhouse]] which has an ancestry that leads all the way back to [[Special:MyLanguage/Friendica|Friendica]] and includes {{Internal link |target=Hubzilla}}. All were created by [[Fedizen:Mike Macgirvin|Mike Macgirvin]].
The Streams repository contains the latest generation of free, open-source, decentralised, [[Special:MyLanguage/Nomadic Identity|nomadic]] [[Special:MyLanguage/Fediverse|Fediverse]] server software. It was created in October of 2021 as a fork of [[Special:MyLanguage/The Zotlabs projects#Roadhouse|Roadhouse]] which has an ancestry that leads all the way back to [[Special:MyLanguage/Friendica|Friendica]] and includes {{Internal link |target=Hubzilla}}. All were created by [[Fedizen:Mike Macgirvin|Mike Macgirvin]].


What is unique about this server application is that it has no name, it has no logo, it has no brand identity, it has no website, and it is not even considered a project. All code responsible for sending nodeinfo data has been removed. It is absent from all websites that list [[Special:MyLanguage/What are Fediverse projects?|Fediverse projects]] and instances. Its core is in the public domain, and contributions by various developers are under different free licenses, making it so difficult to re-license a fork of the whole of it to non-free and proprietary that it can be considered impossible.
What is unique about this server application is that it has no name, it has no logo, it has no brand identity, it has no website, and it is not even considered a project. All code responsible for sending nodeinfo data has been removed. It is absent from all websites that list {{Internal link|target=Fediverse projects}} and instances. Its core is in the public domain, and contributions by various developers are under different free licenses, making it so difficult to re-license a fork of the whole of it to non-free and proprietary that it can be considered impossible.


All this is deliberate and intentional by Macgirvin's decision.<ref>[https://codeberg.org/streams/streams/src/commit/16c101693b741fdc3f1abd03df3fd0f86d4a40cc/README.md ReadMe file in the Streams repository, old version from March 27th, 2022]</ref>
All this is deliberate and intentional by Macgirvin's decision.<ref>[https://codeberg.org/streams/streams/src/commit/16c101693b741fdc3f1abd03df3fd0f86d4a40cc/README.md ReadMe file in the Streams repository, old version from March 27th, 2022]</ref>