Probably his stance is not as aggressive as everyone thinks. I think he is fine with frontends, but not server federation stuff. Maybe I could be wrong, but that is an explanation that I could think of.
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
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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Probably his stance is not as aggressive as everyone thinks. I think he is fine with frontends, but not server federation stuff. Maybe I could be wrong, but that is an explanation that I could think of.
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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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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
He can. The software is FOSS but the servers are under their control and they refuse federation or unofficial clients.
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?