Mastodon's Founder Says Trump's New Social Network Is Just Mastodon
'Truth Social', which will launch officially later in the year, is seemingly using Mastodon's codebase without credit.
Former President Donald Trump’s new social network ’Truth Social’ is seemingly a thinly disguised fork of popular social network codebase Mastodon.
Its terms also say that “all source code” of Truth Social is proprietary. That might run afoul of Mastodon’s own license.
“The main thing is that Mastodon is free software, released under the AGPLv3 license, so anyone can use it—provided they comply with the license. The main part of the license is making the source code and any modifications to it available to the public,” Rochko told Motherboard. With Truth Social saying that its code is proprietary “that would be a problem, as that would indicate a license violation,” Rochko added.
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgm5k/truth-social-is-mastodon-trump
@stux Well maybe it will boost the use / awareness of free software, which can't be a bad thing.
@zleap Well... If they don't disclose the use of Masto's codebase... How would it be "boost the awareness"?
I mean, do you *really* expect the average user to dive into that shit?
Probably not, but if we say it is base don Mastodon, then that is all we can do, I do see your point but at least some of us will know he hasn't created this from scratch
@zleap yea, though, we were already aware of it so...