Trump’s Brand New TRUTH App May Violate Terms of Open Source Code It's Built On
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Trump's Brand New TRUTH App May Violate Terms Of Open Source Code It's Built On
On Wednesday night, after Trump revealed the TRUTH social app, Twitter users began to note that the network appeared to be based on an open-source social networking software called Mastodon, which allows people to modify the underlying code so long as they abide by its license.
But the Trump network appears to have taken the publicly available code for the website while violating the terms that make it free to use.
Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko told TPM in an email that TRUTH appeared to violate the terms of use that the software sets forth: making the source code available, and having a copy of the general product license available to users.
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