Former US President Donald Trump announced his own social networking platform, "TRUTH Social", and put the application for pre-order on the Apple App Store earlier last week, but the platform was soon It starts its beta broadcast until problems arose. One of the regulators claimed that the platform did not follow its own terms, and the hackers did not leave the occasion without explaining their opinions.
SFC says the Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) violated the licensing agreement when it recently launched a beta version of the Truth platform. Social.
The site is running on a modified version of Mastodon, a free and open source platform for running Twitter-like social networks.
Anyone can use Mastodon provided it complies with the terms of AGPLv3, the licensor of the software that owns the source code.
An important requirement for AGPLV3 is that the licensees must share their source code with all users within a short time.
A beta version of Truth Social appeared earlier last Wednesday, but it did not implement that condition.
Now, Software Freedom, an organization that enforces licenses for open source software, says the Trump Media and Technology Group has 30 days to comply with the software's terms of use or face consequences.
"The license treats everyone equally (even people we don't like or agree with), but they must operate under the same rules of copyleft licensing that apply to everyone else," Software Freedom said in a blog post.
Mastodon is a free and open source platform for running Twitter-like (European) social networks.
The organization says the company should make TruthSocial's source code "immediately" available to anyone who accessed the site earlier in the day.
And if the Trump Media and Technology Group fails to do so within 30 days, it will permanently lose access to the software it used to build its platform, according to technology website Engadget.
"We will follow this matter closely and demand that the Trump group give the corresponding source to all users of the site," the organization added.
The pirates also objected in their own way
Meanwhile, hackers gained access to a private version of the social media platform Truth Social, and posted pictures of pigs, swearing, and more, according to multiple reports.
The hackers, affiliated with the popular hacking group Anonymous, told the New York Times that the move was part of their "online war against hate".
"We had a great time on the platform," Aubrey Cottle, a hacker affiliated with Anonymous, told the New York Times.
Hackers managed to hack the Truth Social platform just hours after it was announced that it was launched last Wednesday.
Its app later banned the new accounts and was put offline, according to multiple reports.