• Yujiri@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    I’m confused about this. Are these surviving because Moxie didn’t know about them, or because he changed his stance on alt clients?

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      3 years ago

      Signal is free software, he can’t technologically or legally stop forks or third party clients. All he can realistically do is complain about them

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        3 years ago

        The software is FOSS but the servers are under their control and they refuse federation or unofficial clients.

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          3 years ago

          I’m talking about actually blocking forks/third party clients on a technological level, not ToS or demands in github tickets. As far as I am aware he does not have that ability.

          According to their readme the fork called Molly uses Signal’s servers. Can he block Molly from using Signal’s servers? Has he tried to?

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          3 years ago

          Trademark is an entirely different issue from copyright and it’s my understanding that the trademark was the only legal avenue of attack he had against LibreSignal. Other forks of Signal such as Molly avoid using Signal’s trademark for that reason

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        3 years ago

        I think his main issue was re-distributing a recompiled version of the official Signal client but he got a bit carried away when arguing. So I guess as long as there is no chance that a 3rd party client is mistaken for the official one, it is being tolerated for now.