Mastodon has sent former President Donald *****’s company a formal notification that it’s breaking the rules by using Mastodon’s open-source code to build its social network, named Truth. This news comes from a blog post by Mastodon’s founder Eugen Rochko, but others have previously pointed out that the organization behind Truth, the ***** Media and Technology Group (or TMTG), was violating Mastodon’s software license by not providing the source code for the site built on top of it. *****’s group has 30 days from when the letter was sent to comply with the license or stop using the software, or it could lose the right to do so.
While Truth hasn’t officially launched yet, internet users discovered that a test version basically had the…