Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacement. Now alpha with A/V

Re:Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacemen... by notsecure on Friday August 01, 2014 @07:01PM (#8123284)

Not any time soon, as iOS isn't very FLOSS friendly (in fact, the GPL is not compatible with the Apple app store). There have been talks of making a licensing exception, but the iOS client with the most progress (https://github.com/Jman012/Toxicity) isn't functional at the moment.

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Re:Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacemen... by volitek on Friday August 01, 2014 @07:17PM (#8123354)

I believe there's someone working on a completely different iOS client that looks pretty snazzy, but they haven't got any public code in their repo yet.

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Re:Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacemen... by f3llowtraveler on Friday August 01, 2014 @07:48PM (#8123448)

MPLv2 is compatible with both the GPL and the App Store.

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Re:Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacemen... by JellyYelly on Friday August 01, 2014 @07:17PM (#8123355)

Oh, that's a shame. Hopefully in the future there will be an iOS client.

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Re:Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacemen... by davexunit on Saturday August 02, 2014 @11:40AM (#8125086)

Ask Apple to change their policy to allow copyleft software.

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Re:Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacemen... by duskwuff on Saturday August 02, 2014 @12:01PM (#8125142)

It has nothing to do with Apple's policy. The GPL is what's getting in the way: it says you can't impose restrictions on the redistribution of a GPLed application, and the App Store doesn't have any means to even permit redistribution of apps once they're installed.

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Re:Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacemen... by ginko on Saturday August 02, 2014 @12:29PM (#8125202)

Seems like the App Store's problem.

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Re:Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacemen... by Ridley on Saturday August 02, 2014 @09:26PM (#8126676)

Google play store doesn't have that problem.

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Re:Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacemen... by belorn on Sunday August 03, 2014 @11:01AM (#8128079)

Apple sells products which they have decided to retain control over after sale.

That is Apple's choice, Apple's policy, Apple's decision. It also conflict with a lot of things, including the GPL.

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