AGPL enforcement

The announcement of Donald Trumps social media network, could be in hot water before it has even been formally launched.

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As you may have seen in the news today, Trump's media team has set up their own social network "Truth Social".

What they aren't admitting is it's actually just a Mastodon instance with all the Mastodon branding removed, including all of the messages acknowledging that it is FOSS, as required by the software's free open source licence. This is breaking the terms of the licence, and is essentially stealing the software from the volunteer community which made it.

This kind of behaviour cannot be accepted by anyone who believes in FOSS. Keeping to the requirements of a FOSS licence is fundamental to building software together. If powerful people get away with stealing FOSS, people may be reluctant to build FOSS in the first place.

So the issue is stated in the second paragraph above. It is looked at more in this article

Software freedom conservancy have taken up the case to try and enforce the AGPL and ensure compliance with the AGPL

There has been a similar case in the past – FSF vs Canon

Clearly this is an ongoing situation, If you want to follow this more closely I suggest you join mastodon and follow from there.