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This is interesting to me because it's both a high-profile violation of AGPL, and because it's (for better or for worse) a high-profile usage of Mastodon in the
by lynndotpy 5y ago
This is interesting to me because it's both a high-profile violation of AGPL, and because it's (for better or for worse) a high-profile usage of Mastodon in the wild.
- h2odragon 5y agoGab was pretty high profile too, no?
- rvz 5y agoThat's also true. Truth Social can just do what Gab did and provide a password-protected file in a public self-hosted git repository and they will be compliant.
- lynndotpy 5y agoAs far as I know, Gab never violated AGPL, and I think a social media site backed by Trump will be a much bigger deal.
- commoner 5y agoMastodon's original developer sent a cease and desist letter to Gab on October 21 for not publishing the version of their codebase that is currently in production.[1] Gab updated their repo in one hour, and later shared the entire code tree instead of just a password protected archive file.[2] It's really not that difficult to comply with AGPLv3. Truth Social should simply release the code and keep the repo up to date. [1] https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/107181466903817162 https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/107181466903817162 [2] https://code.gab.com/gab https://code.gab.com/gab