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Software developer gives Trump’s social media platform 30 days to make source code public

By Christopher Hutton
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Software developer gives Trump’s social media platform 30 days to make source code public

Former President Donald Trump’s new social media company has 30 days to make its software source code public or risk losing it, the developer said in a letter.

Mastodon, an open-source social media platform, wrote to the chief legal officer of Trump’s TRUTH Social Tuesday requesting it comply with Mastodon’s open-source software license or face the potential of losing access to the software.

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