World News Headlines October 30, 2021 Under One Ceiling 0 Trump’s social network has 30 days to comply with Mastodon’s license… or else 0 0000 0 0 more Trump’s social network has 30 days to comply with Mastodon’s license… or else October 30, 2021 Under One Ceiling now playing Transferring money from UAE abroad: what are my cheapest options October 30, 2021 Under One Ceiling WIN With Nespresso This Mother’s Day October 30, 2021 Under One Ceiling NBA Playoffs 2022: A Casual Fan's Guide to the Postseason October 30, 2021 Under One Ceiling Best New Climbing Gear of 2022 October 30, 2021 Under One Ceiling A Local Weekend Travel Guide to Austin, Texas October 30, 2021 Under One Ceiling First Drive: 2022 Range Rover Ups the Luxury SUV Experience October 30, 2021 Under One Ceiling Most Stylish Rain Jackets, Parkas, and Trench Coats for Men October 30, 2021 Under One Ceiling EU eyes Russian oil import ban as Moscow strikes western Ukraine October 30, 2021 Under One Ceiling World-class Clark Int’l Airport opens new 110,000 square-meter passenger terminal October 30, 2021 Under One Ceiling PCG: Bodies of 5 children who drowned in Taal Lake found October 30, 2021 Under One Ceiling Trump’s social network has 30 days to comply with Mastodon’s license… or else Former President Donald Trump’s new social network might fail to launch — all because it won’t abide by the terms laid out by the people who wrote its source code. Mastodon, the open-source platform that TRUTH Social is using, announced on its website that it’s giving the social network 30 days to comply with its license before it permanently revokes it. Mastodon says it sent a formal letter on Oct. 26 to TRUTH Social’s chief legal officer requesting compliance. A policy violation? From Trump? No way. Last week, Trump announced a new business venture called Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG). The organization’s first product: TRUTH Social, a social media platform meant to compete with Facebook and Twitter, which banned the former president in the aftermath of the Capitol riots on Jan. 6. While the current plan is to publicly launch a beta version of TRUTH Social in November, a slew of trolls discovered an unprotected sign-up form for the unreleased social network hours after the announcement. The trolls registered available usernames like @DonaldJTrump and @MikePence and defaced the profiles by posting meme pictures such as Pig Poop Balls. While TMTG shut down the accounts later that same night, this was just the beginning of its problems. TRUTH Social’s earliest “unofficial” users noticed that TRUTH Social is actually built on an open-source social networking platform called Mastodon. Anyone can download Mastodon’s code, which is developed by volunteers, at no-charge and create their own social platform using it. However, when using open-source software like Mastodon, you are bound to its licensing terms. Users quickly discovered that Trump’s social network was violating that license. TRUTH Social’s terms of service claim that it is “proprietary property” and all the source code is owned, controlled, or licensed to them. There is no mention of Mastodon or links to its source code. These credits are included in Mastodon by default, meaning TRUTH Social went out of its way to remove them. Mastodon’s publishes its source code for free under an AGPLv3 license. It requires that when a developer uses Mastodon and modifies parts of it to create its own custom version, it must publish the source code with all of the modifications included. And that brings us to another issue: TRUTH Social does not provide its source code. According to ZDNet, the social network has been ignoring requests for its source code. So will Trump’s team comply with Mastodon’s requests? Or will TRUTH Social somehow last even less time than Trump’s blog, which was shut down after just one month? Maybe TMTG will hire a developer team to recreate TRUTH Social from scratch? We’ll find out TRUTH Social’s fate in approximately one month. But, one thing is for certain. Trump has already made a ton of money from his social network. In a press release last week, TMTG announced it was merging with publicly-traded SPAC Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC). SPACs are basically shell corporations listed on the stock exchange with the intent to acquire or partner with a company in order to provide it with a stock listing. The merger valued TMTG at $875 million. The day after the press release, DWAC stock spiked by more than 500 percent. It looks like you can make a ton of money off open-source software, at least if you’re Donald Trump. Related Related posts: Tunisia MP jailed for sexual harassment in landmark case Michael B. Jordan tells Desus and Mero why he decided to direct ‘Creed III’ Gunfire heard as BBC visits scene of Kazakh clashes ‘Abandons its people’: Guatemala’s malnutrition crisis deepens tags: RSS Feed World News 0000 0 0 previous Mark Zuckerberg's 'killer use case' for the metaverse is dumb as hell next Save over $200 on a Microsoft Surface Laptop, plus more great laptop deals this weekend
