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TRUMP'S TRUTH SOCIAL MAY BE SUED OVER APPARENT BREACH OF OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE
TERMS
Christopher Hutton 3 days ago
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Former President Donald Trump's new social network appears to have lifted code
without attribution to Mastodon, and the open-source social network software
company may be gearing up to sue.
© Provided by Washington Examiner
Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko said screenshots of the TRUTH social app's
open-source code, shared after a series of trolls and hackers gained access to
the platform before its November 2021 release date, revealed an apparent
violation of the company's requirement that customers share the code and copies
of the general product license to users. Rochko indicated Mastodon may sue over
the alleged breach.
"I do intend to seek legal counsel on the situation, though," he told Talking
Points Memo Thursday. "Compliance with our AGPLv3 license is very important to
me, as that is the sole basis upon which I and other developers are willing to
give away years of work for free."
TRUMP'S SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM, TRUTH SOCIAL, OVERWHELMED BY TROLLS IN FIRST
HOURS
Mastodon alluded to the resemblance between TRUTH Social's code and its own,
with the company tweeting it "looks familiar."
"Based on the screenshots I have seen, it absolutely is based on Mastodon,"
Rochko told Motherboard.
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Rochko cited a screenshot of TRUTH Social's error message, which resembled the
software's error message. Other screenshots mentioned the company in the
website's HTML.
The TRUTH Social terms of service claim its website code is "proprietary
property," a statement contrary to Mastodon's software policy. The open-source
company operates under an AGPLv3 license, which allows the code to be modified
and used commercially so long as developers share any modifications and link to
the software's source code.
Mastodon is a piece of software that people use to create their own open-source
Twitter. Users can take the software and create their own "fork," or separate
network. While some users have created their private social networks different
from Twitter or Facebook, the software has also been used by Gab, a
right-leaning social network, since 2019.
"Mastodon is completely opposed to Gab's project and philosophy, which seeks to
monetize and platform racist content while hiding behind the banner of free
speech," said Mastodon in a 2019 statement. "Mastodon remains committed to
standing up against hate speech; for example, our new server covenant means we
only list servers on joinmastodon.org that are committed to active moderation
against racism, sexism, and transphobia."
Trump announced on Wednesday he would create TRUTH Social through his new
company, the Trump Media & Technology Group, to "stand up to the tyranny of Big
Tech." The company began by releasing TRUTH Social and intends to expand into
other media ventures.
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Ever since the former president was de-platformed from Twitter, Facebook, and
other social media sites for his words and actions preceding the Jan. 6 Capitol
Hill attack, Trump has railed against Big Tech, arguing the platforms censored
him. Trump sued to get his Twitter and Facebook accounts reinstated in early
October, and he brought a class-action lawsuit in July alleging censorship.
Representatives for Mastodon and the Trump Media & Technology Group did not
immediately respond to requests for comment.
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