I hate Facebook but realized I can't uninstall the bloatware Messenger app from my phone since I actually need it for Facebook Marketplace (I usually use it for selling second-hand stuff and looking for other products/services). Also I have plenty of friends there and it might be good to reconnect with some without dealing with the spyware Meta shit.

Also something for WhatsApp would be good as well

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[–] chebra@mstdn.io 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@graphito

wait what?

https://github.com/beeper/self-host

> Beeper Clients

> Native iOS and Android clients (closed source forks of Element iOS and Android)
Mac OS, Windows and Linux clients (closed source forks of Element Web/Desktop)

How can an Apache-2.0 licensed project be forked as closed source?

[–] graphito 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe they agreed on different license (paid for it) with element directly

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@graphito

that would be stealing the code from all of the other contributors. I don't see any signoff to allow them to double-license these contributions.

[–] graphito 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Element is in full right to multi license their code

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-licensing

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@graphito

emphasis on *their*

Other contributors are sending their code under this agreement https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md#sign-off

[–] graphito 2 points 1 year ago

That's great that you spent some time researching this -- good job, I didn't know about this caveat, thank you for informing me. However, I have no affiliation with the company and recommend to ask about this issue from Beeper team directly.