Mastodon issues 30-day ultimatum to TFG's social network over misuse of its code

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Former President Trump's new social network might be in hot water before it even launches. Mastodon, a free social media framework, alleges that Truth Social is passing open source software off as its own, and has given them 30 days to fix this. If it doesn't fix things by the end of next month, things could get messy.

In a post to the Mastodon blog, founder and CEO Eugen Rochko explained that the problem is not simply that Truth Social uses Mastodon, but that it does so while claiming ownership over the site's code. People inspecting the code of the pre-launch site last week found it was very clearly using Mastodon's code without acknowledgment.

"The terms of service included a worrying passage, claiming that the site is proprietary property and all source code and software are owned or controlled by them or licensed to them," he wrote. "Mastodon is free software published under the AGPLv3 license, which requires any over-the-network service using it to make its source code and any modifications to it publicly accessible."

No mention of Mastodon was made by Truth, although it's plain that the company's code is being used.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mastodon-issues-30-day-ultimatum-171529646.html

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2. They are dealing with tfg & a web of criminals who will use the courts to fuck them over for years.

as they are doing to the most powerful nation in the world.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Trump's Truth App Gets Demand To Stop Violating Software License

This will be fun to watch

Link to tweet

Former President Donald Trump’s new TRUTH social network is in violation of the software license it’s built on and must get in compliance, the holder of the license demanded this week.

The company that holds the software license for the open source code sent TRUTH Social, the Trump-founded venture, a letter demanding compliance with its software license, Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko said in a statement.

Rochko told TPM last week that he believed an early version of Trump’s network was using open-source software that he developed, called Mastodon, without abiding by the terms of the license that make it available to use.

“Truth Social is required to make its complete source code available,” the letter reads. “We request that Truth Social comply with this important condition of the license.”

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4. Sounds like typical Trump

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5. Free, open-source software sounds rather "pinko" for a bunch of red-baiting fascists to use.

Srsly, what kind of FRW klepto-capitalists and fascists would use open source software for a website that, like all their other messaging, will reflexively label everyone to the left of Trump and his ilk as "communists"?

[DemocraticPatriot]

6. Sounds like it might be a good time to "short" their stock...

LOL