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Re:Reviewing the Cryptography Used by Signal by sneak on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @09:59AM (#43090241)
The Signal service’s Terms of Service do not prohibit non-official clients, so anyone can build and run a Signal client from source.

The Signal devs claim they don’t want people distributing forks of the foss client that point at the official Signal servers, but they actually release it under a free software license, so you are free to do precisely that, and all they can do is complain.

The software is free software governed by the software license, and the API/service is governed by the ToS. Neither prevents alternative clients.

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Re:Reviewing the Cryptography Used by Signal by 999ear-pure on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @10:01AM (#43090267)
Didn't they intentionally take down other Signal clients from Google Play? Although to play devils advocate they seem to have stopped being so aggressive. Still scary and concerning.
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Re:Reviewing the Cryptography Used by Signal by Beretta_Vexee on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @10:10AM (#43090372)
They mainly reported false Signal clients. What was the purpose of these fake clients is more worrying than their removal.
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Re:Reviewing the Cryptography Used by Signal by sneak on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @10:02AM (#43090283)
They did that because they were misusing the Signal trademark. You are not allowed to use their trademark when naming your fork.
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