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Written by immibis on 2025-01-17 at 22:27

Apparently #SimpleXChat #SimpleX contains a whole lot of open source libraries and none of their licenses are complied with (except Boost). Someone brought this up to the creator, who said to sue him. So I wonder if any rightsholders of VLC, Samba, X11, Wayland, Qt5, Mesa, libarchive, Cairo, OpenSSL, fluidsynth, any codec distributed with VLC, or a bunch more, are reading this.

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Written by pelle 🌱🛠️🍉 on 2025-01-18 at 00:21

@immibis How are they not complied with? Is it because they're not GPL-compatible?

If we look at X11 license, which you mention, it is GPL-compatible according to the GNU license list.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#X11License

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Written by immibis on 2025-01-18 at 14:15

@pelle You still have to obey the license terms: display the copyright notice.

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Written by stf on 2025-01-20 at 15:08

@immibis @pelle i just looked it up: https://spdx.org/licenses/X11.html

there is no requirement to display the license.

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Written by immibis on 2025-01-21 at 12:37

@stf @pelle did I say there was? Why are you trying to defend a rich far right guy's violation of open source licenses by putting words in my mouth? Suspicious.

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Written by stf on 2025-01-21 at 13:44

@immibis @pelle you did say this:

You still have to obey the license terms: display the copyright notice.

here:

https://social.immibis.com/objects/d4dcd33a-6fa0-429a-8c76-8383a183d5b1

maybe i misunderstood. and i didn't know that there is rich far right guys involved. who would that be? i would like to learn more about this concern, do you have links to the right wingedness and wealth?

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Written by pelle 🌱🛠️🍉 on 2025-01-21 at 14:04

@stf The Jack Dorsey investment.

@immibis Please help us by sharing your knowledge. I don't want to promote another sketchy messenger app.

However, #SimpleX runs on widely-deployed decentralized free servers, in contrast to #Signal's over-the-wall open-source but centralized server.

I am in trouble because of #Signal playing it lose with phone numbers, while #SimpleX doesn't ask for personal info.

That makes #SimpleX look good, but you have reasons to avoid it, we would love if you'd share!

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Written by stf on 2025-01-21 at 14:07

@pelle @immibis what? no. really? jack dorsey? wtf. didn't know. well, i have two reasons to avoid simplex, 1/ the huge supply chain attack surfeces (pun intended) that promises a "soon" instead of an "if", jian tan style. and the fact that group messaging cannot do a proper global transcript.

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Written by pelle 🌱🛠️🍉 on 2025-01-21 at 14:19

@stf What would you suggest instead?

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