Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code

Is this actually true? The network was available just for a short time and now is not anymore.

Does a history of enforcement help in cases like this? The article itself says that Truth Social is "antithetical" to Mastodon's values, but that there's nothing they can do about the usage of their software other than license violations. It sounds like they have a bias to enforce their license in this case.

If Mastodon has a weak history of enforcing their license to other organizations, does it weaken the case? I'm wondering if selective enforcement in the software-licensing world hurts the authority or credibility of a license, in the eyes of the law.

My wondering was somewhat inspired by the way Nintendo aggressively polices the appearance of its video game trademarks on places like YouTube and basically the rest of the internet. I hear an argument is that if they don't aggressively enforce their trademark policing, their legal position wouldn't be as strong if they want to pursue a big violation in the future.

It'll be fair not to attribute it to malice once they start following the terms of the license...until then, all we know is what we can see

Petty.

Do we really have to give this guy the #1 Hacker News story? He was fading into the background so nicely.