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Trump's 'Truth Social', is seemingly using Mastodon's codebase without credit (www.vice.com)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Mastodon is AGPLV3 so doesn't that mean the folks who own "Truth Social" are legally obliged to share their source code?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 years ago (1 children)

In another article Eugen said he "intend to seek legal counsel".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

Not sure how well he'll be able to hold his own against Trump though, even though they're absolutely in the right legally. The number of corrupt Trump supporting judges at all levels of the US legal system is honestly just sad.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I imagine this is something that GNU foundation would get involved with.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

The Software Freedom Conservancy is currently trying to establish a precedent that "not just the copyright holders, but also the receivers of the licensed code who are entitled to rights" can also sue for copyleft license violations. if this goes through, it will be huge! Both for this and for FLOSS in general, since most FLOSS authors don't actually have the time or resources to sue on their own behalf.

https://lemmy.ml/post/85980

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 years ago

Eugen is German, i dont think there is any reason for him to sue in some other country.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

I wouldn't assume that judges being Trump appointees will have any influence on their rulings. When Trump was trying to screw with the election results, many of the judges that were ruling against him were Trump appointees. I'm no fan of the conservative legal movement in general, but they generally don't do political favors.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Correct. But it's Trump so don't expect them to play by the rules.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 years ago

That would indeed be the case.