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by throwaway420y 1693 days ago
I fail to see how a website that's not up yet is violating any licenses, can anyone tell me more about this ?
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CTDOCodebases 1693 days ago
The article states it was made available to a small subset of people.

I guess distribution is distribution even if it just handing a USB stick to a friend.

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luke9112 1693 days ago
I've read the AGPL, and it says that it must be able to be distributed to every user of the software. Every person that uses Truth Social must be able to find the source code.
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_-david-_ 1692 days ago
Has any beta tester actually requested the code? If not then I don't think there is a violation.
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_-david-_ 1692 days ago
Has any person who has access to the site actually requested the source code? If not then there is no license violation right?
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CTDOCodebases 1692 days ago
I don’t know. I’m not privy to the private communications of the users nor do I have the legal expertise to understand the validity of the terms and conditions of a license.

Regardless I just see this announcement as a pre emptive move by the developers of Mastodon to compel the owners of Truth Social to comply with their license moving forward.

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spamizbad 1693 days ago
The website was up, and claimed it was running proprietary software.
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