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 I was thinking the same, but not sure we need his followers on here 
Maybe we should hold off doing anything for a while and let that build up, we then build up more evidence to get it shut down.
If that platform in any shape way or form damages the reputations of normal mastodon users, we all could have a case of defamation and damage to reputation.
