Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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The thing is, I first thought that it was not updated frequently simply because the server side of Signal is really simple (it's only role is to forward messages after all), so the code was very rarely touched.
However there seems to be people that have tried to run their own infrastructure that are not able to get some features to work.
Would it be even legal for them to run an updated version of the server without releasing it as FLOSS given the AGPL license?
The legality of this is unclear. If their silence on this topic isn't because they're trying to do their best Apple role-play (which is most likely, imo), the cynic in me says it's because they acknowledge they should publish the source ASAP in compliance with the AGPLv3.
If you are the sole owner of the copyright of some software you can do whatever you want with it. The license applies to others, not yourself.
not trying to be rude, but uh, no shit? I think it's malicious of them to say that they're end to end open source to be honest.
I never used Signal. I use P2P apps instead. I wonder why people still use centralized messengers. Theres a lot of P2P messengers available. Theres a few here