Comment by billfruit
2 months ago
Obsidian isn't open source by most reports.
Surely Obsidian do not to see all files on the device, it only really needs to see the files the user needs it to see.
2 months ago
Obsidian isn't open source by most reports.
Surely Obsidian do not to see all files on the device, it only really needs to see the files the user needs it to see.
> Obsidian isn't open source by most reports.
On FreeBSD I can build a full copy from source (in fact I have to, there is no binary package). The only issue seems to be licensing, not source availability. Personally I don't care about licensing (I completely ignore it all anyway) and it doesn't stop you from inspecting the source code.
I think Obsidian is a really great package, I just happened to have moved over from OneNote which is horrible Microsoft mediocrity and doesn't even have a Linux app. And the web version is really useless, it needs to refresh every day and it can only search within the same tab, not a whole notebook. Such a mess. Obsidian is so quick and efficient <3 And there is full self-hosted syncing available, which I also use.
Obsidian on Android source seems not available. Even generally the reports seems that source is not available.
May be the freebsd build is using some binary library packages?
A cursory search indicates that one of the freebsd 'build-scripts' used for installing obsidian uses a binary package for obsidian itself, not building it from source.
It strange that about obsidian which seems to be rather popular here has many people thinking that it is open source, when it is not.
You probably mean this one: https://github.com/jgrafton/freebsd-obsidian
That's just a user contributed thing though. It's also just in the official ports collection. There's only a makefile there and some config files for electron (electron is kinda a PITA to compile on FreeBSD because there's no package)
Now, it can update itself automatically but it's all JavaScript. No binaries.
But it's safe enough for me anyway. Especially because the dev community uses it do much. If it did something untoward it would be noticed quickly.
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There isn't a permission for that though - it's all or nothing. I agree that it should be more granular; each app should really have its own scoped file storage area by default, with "access anything" being reserved for file browsers, backup software, etc.
Android already has support for scoped storage. So it is not clear why Obisidian needs the whole file system permission.
Yes but only later Android versions. If you start supporting those you need to move to the corresponding API level and that means to drop support for older ones. They probably don't want to do that yet. This one is Android 10 and up, and the Android 10 version of scoped storage was quite basic IIRC so you probably want an even later one. I guess they still want to support older phones.
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