Comment by pests
2 years ago
Just because a project is open source doesn't mean everything the team works on or releases will be in the public eye, nor does it even imply that it has to be open source as well.
2 years ago
Just because a project is open source doesn't mean everything the team works on or releases will be in the public eye, nor does it even imply that it has to be open source as well.
That's not what this is about.
It's not just any open-source project.
It's a privacy-orientated open-source project.
They could at least BSL the server code and allow others to verify the server code and host but not compete.
> They could at least BSL the server code and allow others to verify the server code and host but not compete.
This is exactly what they do (except they use AGPL): https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server