Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon's open-source license with botched social network launch

Golf enthusiast given 30 days to cough up code

A Florida man has been accused of breaking the copyleft license of Mastodon by running an online instance of the software without providing its source code as required.

And not only that, the real-estate baron and wannabe tech tycoon has been told he has a month to fall in line with the fine print or put himself potentially at risk further action.

Mastodon is a Twitter-like microblogging service that you host yourself. Servers running this software can form a larger, decentralized social network.

The code is made available under version three of the Affero GPL. That means if someone modifies the software and runs it as a network-accessible service, such as a website, their users need to be offered a way to get hold of that customized source.

The aforementioned Palm Beach businessman, known for his failed casino, discontinued line of steaks, and a recent stint in public office, chairs an online media group that this week promised to launch a social network for selected users next month. A wider rollout is expected in the new year following a period of beta testing, apparently.

The web service, which alleges it wants to foster "honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology," has curiously in its terms-of-use banned one of its supremo's most favorite things in the whole wide world: "excessive use of capital letters."

After an announcement went out about the social network, netizens found they were able to sign up early at will to what looked like a test deployment of the platform, and posted prank announcements and other material on it. Someone was even able to create a profile in the name of the cancelled reality TV star, using it to share a photo of a pig defecating on itself.

The service, which was soon taken down, appeared to be powered by a version of Mastodon modified to mostly remove any mention of its origins, though its HTML source and design signaled where the code came from.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/23/software_freedom_conservancy_mastodon/

banning the ALL CAPS is in line with NO OUTSIDE COMMS

a Q proof?

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>>14840081

"Patel Patriot" and "Ghost Ezra" ( good job guys, wink wink) are probably working together

>>14840084

> tropical connection

you mean tropical convection?

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>>14838813 pb

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>JuliansRum, [22.10.21 22:56]

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>[ Photo ]

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>I find it extremely suspicious that, as far as I can tell, Halyna Hutchins’ maiden name is nowhere to be found

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>https://t.me/juliansrumchannel/208

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>took me 5 minutes to find her maiden name

lol, Julian's rum is one of the top "Qanon" influencers/"researchers", didn't find the wikipedia article …

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>if you plug a set of headphones into a microphone jack, the headphones become a microphone.

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>You think a tv/monitor that you watch and listed to, could also be used as a camera for people who watch and listen to you?

logical thinking but it does not work that way

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>Exactly

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>How does an "image" travel thru space into a copper wire into a black box, reassemble, and Light up a screen? IMMPOSSIBLE? MAGIC

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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>a headphone will absolutely work as a microphone if plugged into a mic jack.

that was the true premise, but the conclusion about monitor was wrong >>14840423

>>14840395

Donald Duck Face

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In an animal communication studies of capuchin monkeys, the "duck face" term has been used synonymously with "protruded lip face", which females exhibit in the proceptive phase before mating.

Manson, J. H.; Perry, S.; Parish, A. R. (October 1997). "Nonconceptive sexual behavior in bonobos and capuchins". International Journal of Primatology. 18 (5): 767–786.