Making Truth Social Comply with the AGPL
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Re: Making Truth Social Comply with the AGPL
#2Tldr, they complied when asked.
The write up could have done without a good portion of it just bashing Republicans every other line, it didn't add anything at all to an otherwise fine writeup.
Re: Making Truth Social Comply with the AGPL
#3> that the labor they exploit is frequently performed by liberals, queers, socialists, and other groups they’ve sworn to destroy
You know... people with significantly different ideologies also write code.
Re: Making Truth Social Comply with the AGPL
#4Good on them for complying: https://github.com/boehs/truthsocial/tree/main/source
Looks like a straightforward ruby on rails app.
I don't have a legal background so I'm curious what would have happened if they hadn't complied? Fined in a civil case?
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#5> that the labor they exploit is frequently performed by liberals, queers, socialists, and other groups they’ve sworn to destroy You know... people with significantly different ideologies also write code.
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Re: Making Truth Social Comply with the AGPL
#6Good on them for complying: https://github.com/boehs/truthsocial/tree/main/source Looks like a straightforward ruby on rails app. I don't have a legal background so I'm curious what would have happened if they hadn't complied? Fined in a civil case?
Yes, the SFC (Software Freedom Conservancy) is a charity that provides legal support for free software developers, and actually backed up mastodon in the last instance of this:
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/oct/21/trump-group-agplv...
Re: Making Truth Social Comply with the AGPL
#7> that the labor they exploit is frequently performed by liberals, queers, socialists, and other groups they’ve sworn to destroy You know... people with significantly different ideologies also write code.
I think the word is “frequently” which isn’t “exclusively” and the subject was “open source,” not code. I don’t think it’s controversial most free software / open source people fall into these categories much to the cryptofascist science denying qanon follower free software nerds dismay.
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#8> that the labor they exploit is frequently performed by liberals, queers, socialists, and other groups they’ve sworn to destroy You know... people with significantly different ideologies also write code.
This is a good point because “frequently performed by” means “exclusively performed by”
Re: Making Truth Social Comply with the AGPL
#9Great write up. The Github mirror is also quite convenient.
Re: Making Truth Social Comply with the AGPL
#10Wow sounds like they comply better then pretty much any company I wasn't expecting that when I started the article.