Company: DJTWW
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001140361-25-004822
Chunk: 79

Company: Trump Media & Technology Group Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 79
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          or were forced to pay monetary damages, the results could adversely affect TMTG’s business and reputation.

TMTG must comply with licenses related to the use of free, publicly-available software incorporated in Truth Social
          products; failure to do so could cause the loss of the ability to use such software which could in turn adversely affect TMTG’s revenues and results of operations.

In October 2021, Software Freedom Conservancy policy fellow Bradley M. Kuhn accused TMTG of violating the licensing agreement for the free,
          publicly available software platform, Mastodon. Although any entity can use the code from Mastodon, according to the licensing agreement (AGPLv3), each user of the software must receive “an opportunity to receive the entire Corresponding Source
          for the website based on that code.” Early users of Truth Social, Kuhn alleged, did not receive the source code.

On October 26, 2021, Mastodon sent a letter requesting that the Truth Social source code be made publicly available in compliance with the
          license. Private TMTG took action to resolve this issue by publishing its source code.

TMTG may face similar risks in the future, and failure to comply with such licenses could cause the loss of the ability to use such software,
          which could in turn adversely affect TMTG’s revenues and results of operations.

Many of TMTG’s products and services rely on, incorporate, and/or license open source software, which may pose particular
          risks to TMTG’s proprietary software, products, and services in a manner that could have a negative effect on TMTG’s business.

TMTG uses and plans to continue using open-source software in its products and services. For example, Truth Social was built using an AGPLv3
          license (also referred to “copyleft” or a “viral license”). In addition, TMTG may contribute software source code to existing open-source projects, such as Mastodon,
          pursuant to applicable licenses or release internal software projects under open-source licenses and anticipate doing so in the future. The terms of many licenses to which TMTG is or is likely to become subject to have not been interpreted by
          U.S. or foreign courts, and there is a risk that open-source software licenses could be construed in a manner that imposes unanticipated conditions or restrictions on TMTG’s ability to provide or distribute TMTG’s products or services.
          Additionally, TMTG may from time-to-time