[Link] Trump’s social network has 30 days to stop breaking the rules of its software license

Read: 9/11/2021 www.theverge.com

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump’s new social network violated a free and open-source software licensing agreement by ripping off decentralized social network Mastodon.

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[Link] Mastodon Lawyers Tell Trump Social Network to Make Source Code Public

Read: 31/10/2021 www.vice.com

Lawyers for the social network codebase Mastodon have sent a formal letter to former President Donald Trump’s upcoming social network ‘Truth Social’ asking the site to make its source code publicly available, according to an announcement from Mastodon today.

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[Link] Trump’s social network has 30 days to stop breaking the rules of its software license

Read: 27/10/2021 www.theverge.com

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump’s new social network violated a free and open-source software licensing agreement by ripping off decentralized social network Mastodon.

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[Link] Vizio In Hot Water Over Smart TV GPL Violations

Read: 22/10/2021 hackaday.com

As most anyone in this community knows, there’s an excellent chance that any consumer product on the market that’s advertised as “smart” these days probably has some form of Linux running under the hood.

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