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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish25•4 days agoYeah look: https://github.com/signalapp
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-24 days agoTheir backend is closed source. [EDIT: Incorrect, see below]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish20•4 days agohttps://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server On Wikipedia it says the servers are open source but spam prevention is proprietary.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•4 days agoThanks for the correction. That’s pretty rad. Now I’m wondering if that’s a wrong memory or if it was released in the last few years.
minus-squareAdamlinkfedilinkEnglish7•3 days agoThere was a fuss a while back since the released source appeared to be waaaay out of date compared to what was being used. They came out and said that they wanted the usernames feature to be developed fully before it got pushed public. Which they then did.
Is signal foss?
Yeah look: https://github.com/signalapp
Their backend is closed source.[EDIT: Incorrect, see below]
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
On Wikipedia it says the servers are open source but spam prevention is proprietary.
Thanks for the correction. That’s pretty rad. Now I’m wondering if that’s a wrong memory or if it was released in the last few years.
There was a fuss a while back since the released source appeared to be waaaay out of date compared to what was being used.
They came out and said that they wanted the usernames feature to be developed fully before it got pushed public. Which they then did.
It’s source-available