I'm not an lawyer, but I've seen a lot of people saying that Donald Trump is violating the GPL with his new website, but I'm not so sure. As I recall, the GPL is about redistributing programs compiled with source code. Running a website you aren't distributing the program, you're just using it, so I'm not sure that there's actually any obligation to post the source code. I might be wrong, but it's the way I recall GPL working. That could mean that GPL is largely incompatible with web services.
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Ok, so it looks like I'm right and I'm wrong.
I'm right that the GPL doesn't protect that, and I'm wrong because mastodon is agpl not gpl
I'm right that the GPL doesn't protect that, and I'm wrong because mastodon is agpl not gpl