I hope Signal no longer depends, recommends, or suggests (optionally or not) Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) and related non-free software made from Google.
This has been stressed frequently in the libreplanet-br mailing list, specially since lots of people are now fostering Riot and Signal, but at least in the case of Riot, it has a "conditional state of freedom", it seems Riot only wants to "reach for more people" rather than providing free/libre software for everyone, I say so be cause I saw the source files of Riot, and it will only be free/libre software for those who download it from F-Droid, but for those who get it from Google Play, it'll depend *at least* on the non-free GCM. My investigation on Signal tells me that it still needs to remove some non-free dependencies, but my research was limited to issues shown in the repository of LibreSignal, a fork of Signal that received a request to stop from the Signal proprietors because, at the time, LibreSignal was doing something (I don't remember what it was) that Signal people didn't like. The High Priority list of the FSF does have an entry suggesting us to help Signal be free/libre, but I have no news on how far we got since the new priority list was published, no official statement saying that all the problems pointed by the item in the High Priority list have been solved, and there is no entry about Signal in the Free Software Directory ([[https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Signal]]). Optionally, one awesome thing to have would be GNU Ring and Signal using the same distributed communication. :) -- - [[https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno]] - Palestrante e consultor sobre /software/ livre (não confundir com gratis). - "WhatsApp"? Ele não é livre, por isso não uso. Iguais a ele prefiro GNU Ring, ou Tox. Quer outras formas de contato? Adicione o vCard que está no endereço acima aos teus contatos. - Pretende me enviar arquivos .doc, .ppt, .cdr, ou .mp3? OK, eu aceito, mas não repasso. Entrego apenas em formatos favoráveis ao /software/ livre. Favor entrar em contato em caso de dúvida.
