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Re:Standalone Signal Desktop by bilkow on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @09:54AM (#15601123)
It may now support working on devices without Play Services, but being the same apk, Google's libraries are still inside the app. This way it's not entirely free and doesn't fit F-Droid's inclusion policy. (https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Inclusion_Policy/)
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Re:Standalone Signal Desktop by Vinnl on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @10:20AM (#15601322)
Ah, I did not know that - thanks for clarifying. Does that mean that library code is still executed, or is it just "there"?

(Oh, and worth noting: it has an integrated update checker, so not being in F-Droid is less of a problem.)

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Re:Standalone Signal Desktop by bilkow on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @12:18PM (#15602736)
I'm not sure, maybe it is worth checking the source code.

An update checker is nice though! I wish firefox had one, but at least there's FFUpdater.

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