Re:Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code
by Smithalicious on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @09:36AM
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Okay, fair enough, I expected worse from the title. The "antithetical to our values" thing is silly political posturing, but the case itself seems like a pretty clear cut AGPL violation. Hope it gets worked out alright, and that across the aisle we can all agree to respect free software licenses.
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Re:Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code
by lorabe on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @05:51PM
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To be clear, there is nothing wrong with having political ideas behind what you do, at the end of the day Mastodon was created for political reasons, first, to support free software, second, to create a web alternative to the shitshow that twitter tends to be.
Having that said, enforcing the AGPL rules is an activity that should be done regardless of your political ideas, if someone is violating the AGPL3 the projects have every right to ask them to comply, especially when the offenders belong to powerfull corporate groups that do have the money and the resources.
Mastodon saying "we don't like them" is an expression of honesty IMO, but not the only reason to why they want to seek legal counseling.
Re:Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code
by fdschoeneman on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:22PM
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I think this is about right, as long as mastodon is enforcing the requirement across all instances. I suspect that if it was enforcing this in other instances it would have said so.