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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 wild.


Gab was pretty high profile too, no?


That'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.


As far as I know, Gab never violated AGPL, and I think a social media site backed by Trump will be a much bigger deal.


Mastodon'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

[2] https://code.gab.com/gab




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