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# Trump’s site Truth Social broke software rules, says copyleft group
- URL: https://werd.io/trumps-site-truth-social-broke-software-rules-says-copyleft-group/
- Published: 2021-10-22T23:36:26.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-22T23:36:26.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

It turns out they forked Mastodon but are lying about it and aren’t complying with the AGPL: “Truth Social doesn’t comply with that license and, in fact, refers to its service as “proprietary.” Its developers apparently attempted to scrub references that would make the Mastodon connection clear — at one point listing a “sighting” of the Mastodon logo as a bug — but included direct references to Mastodon in the site’s underlying HTML alongside obvious visual similarities.”

\[[Link](https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740354/trump-truth-social-network-spac-mastodon-license-software-freedom-conservancy)\]