There was an attempt to make LibreSignal fork without Google’s ‘Play’ services, and Signal chief suspended the project telling it’s a violation to use Signal backend with unofficial Signal forks.
https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal
That’s a shame, really. Even Telegram with its closed-source backend allows people to use it with unofficial clients.
There is another fork of Signal, Session. But I haven’t heard anything about it for a while.
So I suggest to consider for some alternative to Signal. Matrix gang rise up.
There was an attempt to make LibreSignal fork without Google’s ‘Play’ services, and Signal chief suspended the project telling it’s a violation to use Signal backend with unofficial Signal forks. https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal That’s a shame, really. Even Telegram with its closed-source backend allows people to use it with unofficial clients. There is another fork of Signal, Session. But I haven’t heard anything about it for a while. So I suggest to consider for some alternative to Signal. Matrix gang rise up.
There is a regularly mantained Signal-FOSS version, I use it: https://www.twinhelix.com/apps/signal-foss/ It has a F-Droid repository to be added.