Posted by iota
(here)
Posted by Mashika
(here)
It already got into legal issues
https://algulf.net/2021/10/22/social...tware-license/
The Software Freedom Conservancy, a nonprofit organization that provides support and legal services for open source software, said Friday that while anyone can use Mastodon’s code for free to build online platforms, they must comply with the license that requires the user to create their own source code. offers, which TRUTH Social has not.
TRUTH Social refers to its platform and software code as “property.” Unless it changes its approach and opens its code for users to view within 30 days, the platform will no longer be able to use the Mastodon software it is built on.
“The license purposefully treats everyone equally (even people we don’t like or disagree with), but they must operate under the same copyright licensing rules that apply to everyone,” Bradley Kuhn, policy officer and hacker-in-residence at Software Freedom Conservancy, wrote in a blog post. “Today we saw that the Trump Media and Technology Group ignored those important rules — which were designed for the social good.”
Rebuilding that site from scratch with the features they want could take years, and possibly fail since it's not easy job. Most clones like that fail on the first to second year, and require lots and lots of money and a full team, working full time. That's why it's easier to just reuse something someone else wrote and rebrand
But they did not follow the license agreement, they picked it up for free, rebranded it, then claimed it belonged to the Trump organization and was proprietary, which is not at all
If they don't comply with license agreements, they will be sued, and it's a lost battle basically, because there's no way they can hide the fact this is the 'Mastodon' platform, but rebranded and slightly modified
darn it!!
and i was JUST gearing up to identify EVERY single infiltrator and launch a large scale campaign of exposure
with the stringiest of consequences possible, maybe even MANDATORY jail time the very first time
because until we do? we will never be able to trust what we are told, what is presented to us, what is reported
THESE ARE THE REAL "Domestic Terrorists"
and they are indeed "terrorizing" the people ~ ALL people in fact
committing FRAUD but with far reaching consequences
that are altering (destroying) the very fabric of society
and there is NO way it should be legal
tolerated or allowed to continue
but, as you were saying ....
so you think i should opt for shorting the shares instead of outright investment then?