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Used to be, called LibreSignal. They ran into legal issues. https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal There is a b
by mtreis86 10y ago
Used to be, called LibreSignal. They ran into legal issues.
https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal
There is a bounty for modifying the signal app source to drop play services.
https://www.bountysource.com/issues/35722527-create-proper-pull-request-to-add-libresignal-s-websocket-support-to-ows-signal https://www.bountysource.com/issues/35722527-create-proper-p...
- lucideer 10y agoJust to clarify on mtreis76's bountysource link, that work has already been completed and submitted by 8bitkid, and we're just waiting for it to be merged into Signal. Discussion on this here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/pull/5962 https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/pull/5962
- snowpanda 10y agoThey can't use the name LibreSignal because it has the word Signal in it? Wow, even Microsoft didn't behave that juvenile about LibreOffice.
- metaobject 10y agoYeah, they just sued some high school kid because of the domain name he chose: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft
- fapjacks 10y agoI don't know about Canadian trademark law, but at least in the States, if you don't put effort into defending your trademark, you lose it. Completely different country, I know, but perhaps there's something similar in their law.
- lucideer 10y agoAlso - I don't think the naming issue with LibreSignal was necessarily a legal one per se. Moxie just expressed his opinion that he didn't like that they were using "Signal" in the name. He didn't specifically ask them to rename it. They offered to rename it, to which he replied that he'd appreciate that. (They didn't rename it since they just discontinued it instead).