• poVoq@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Given the license, it wouldn’t even be legal for Signal to make the server closed source. AGPL prevents that.

    This is not true. If you are the sole copyright holder to the code which the Signal Foundation AFAIK is, then you can close the source-code any time you want.

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      3 years ago

      I’m pretty sure that there have been external contributions for the implementation of websocket notifications for phones without google’s services, but I might be wrong.

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        Hmm, maybe… not sure. I would guess they have a CLA in place though, which allows them to take over the copyright.