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

[Zorro]

It's a step that could end in the license being revoked.

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.”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/trumps-truth-app-gets-demand-to-stop-violating-software-license

[tymorial]

1. Lololol

This is hilarious.

[texasfiddler]

2. Trump hasn't been truthful about TRUTH. You can't make this stuff up. NT

[Mr.Bill]

3. Why does anyone do business

with this asshole? Are people really this stupid?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. With open source code you don't 'do business' with anyone ... there's just terms under which anyone

can use your code ... that's the idea behind the concept.

In fact, the large majority of the internet operates on open-source principals and licenses (and their terms), and the 'cheaters' are relatively few.

Leave it to IQ45's people to be dicks (and basically thieves), taking advantage of the largesse of thousands of others, many of which worked for NOTHING.

Sadly, basically all Mastodon can do is sue if the conditions to use their code are not met. Which is what Trump LOVES.

[Captain Zero]

10. Although Mastodon would know best how to hack it

If Trump truth doesn't comply. Just saying.
Kind of dumb on Trump's part.

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. Pay what you use Asshole.

[Retrograde]

6. And, as usual, Trump will ignore it

and tell them to sue him if they want him to stop. Or he'll sue them just because.

[UTUSN]

7. Note to BOROWITZ: Drumpf gets banned from "Truth Social"

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. This will be fun to watch

Link to tweet

[lark]

9. Kick him off, he will never comply with any rules he can break & make money on.

Never does he pay his legitimate bills, he's a fraud and a cheat at his core.