Trust is good, control is better: Reproducible builds at F-Droid

Re:Trust is good, control is better: Reproducible builds at ... by MaxBarraclough on Saturday July 20, 2019 @01:53PM (#20487251)

Ah, right. So they don't try to prohibit distributing 'unofficial' binaries, they just insist that if you do so, you don't call it 'Signal'.

As you say, Mozilla have done the same thing, and it's not hard to see why, though some FOSS folks (Debian in particular) took issue with this [0][1]

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/676799/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_software_rebranded_by_...

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Re:Trust is good, control is better: Reproducible builds at ... by jdnenej on Saturday July 20, 2019 @07:38PM (#20488976)

Not only can you not call it signal, you may also not connect it to the signal network so you have to host your own which can't message anyone.

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Re:Trust is good, control is better: Reproducible builds at ... by southerntofu on Monday July 22, 2019 @10:19AM (#20498166)

Here's some relevant piece by m0xie, a maintainer of Signal : https://github.com/libresignal/libresignal/issues/37#issueco...

He and his colleagues are hostile towards federated protocols. This culminated in an article called "The ecosystem is moving" to which Daniel Gultsch (maintainer of conversations.im) answered here: https://gultsch.de/objection.html

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