Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based on Mastodon
uk.pcmag.com
Mastodon had originally threatened to sue Trump's 'Truth Social' site for allegedly violating its open-source license.
  • squirrel@cake.kobel.fyiEnglish
    122·
    14 days ago

    Yep, it’s a fork

    On October 21, 2021, the Software Freedom Conservancy group stated they suspected Truth Social had violated Mastodon’s AGPLv3 license by not offering its source code to all users. The Mastodon developers then formally requested that Truth Social comply with the terms of the software license, with Truth Social publishing its source code as a ZIP file on the website on November 12, 2021. On February 22, 2022, the source code download was moved to the website’s legal section. A mirror of the source code is available at GitHub, where it was uploaded by uninvolved individuals. Wikipedia

    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      89·
      14 days ago

      Of course they violated the licence. I’m not even surprised that they did that, but i am somewhat puzzled by the fact that they did publish the source when asked to.

      • historicaldocuments@lemmy.worldEnglish
        34·
        13 days ago

        Make a bingo card out of the phrases:

        • “We didn’t do anything wrong.”
        • “We paid Company X to do that.”
        • “What’s a computer license?”
        • “How much do they want?”
        • “If it’s free then why are we talking?”
        • “If it’s free then what did we pay Company X for?”
        • “What does GNU mean?”
        • [… some time later …]
        • “Can’t we just pay them?”
        • “Don’t pay Company X because they fucked this up.”
        • “Why do we have to give everyone the changes we paid for?”
        • “Whatever. I don’t want to hear about this again.”

        Add your own phrases. It’s a fun game for all ages.

    • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8·
      13 days ago

      One of the big smoking guns in this whole debacle was that people could reproduce known bugs in Mastadon in Truth Social, which basically made it impossible to deny that it wasn’t a clone.