← Back to context Comment by saubeidl 12 hours ago The French government built their own: https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet 4 comments saubeidl Reply euio757 12 hours ago "built their own" wrapper yes (which is a very important piece of a end-to-end Zoom like product)But you can see:> Powered by [LiveKit](https://livekit.io/)Fine since this is an open source product, but not full EU sovereignty of the software stack.Livekit could at any time change their license and drop support for the free open-source version like so many products have done in the past.If a EU entity forks it and maintains it, then that'd be end-to-end sovereignty IMO. saubeidl 7 hours ago That might be true philosophically, but tactically it makes no sense to fork until a potential future license change. Why lose the free maintenance from upstream? fpoling 12 hours ago But they hosted the repo on Microsoft-run GitHub ... saubeidl 11 hours ago The public-facing mirror :-)
euio757 12 hours ago "built their own" wrapper yes (which is a very important piece of a end-to-end Zoom like product)But you can see:> Powered by [LiveKit](https://livekit.io/)Fine since this is an open source product, but not full EU sovereignty of the software stack.Livekit could at any time change their license and drop support for the free open-source version like so many products have done in the past.If a EU entity forks it and maintains it, then that'd be end-to-end sovereignty IMO. saubeidl 7 hours ago That might be true philosophically, but tactically it makes no sense to fork until a potential future license change. Why lose the free maintenance from upstream?
saubeidl 7 hours ago That might be true philosophically, but tactically it makes no sense to fork until a potential future license change. Why lose the free maintenance from upstream?
fpoling 12 hours ago But they hosted the repo on Microsoft-run GitHub ... saubeidl 11 hours ago The public-facing mirror :-)
"built their own" wrapper yes (which is a very important piece of a end-to-end Zoom like product)
But you can see:
> Powered by [LiveKit](https://livekit.io/)
Fine since this is an open source product, but not full EU sovereignty of the software stack.
Livekit could at any time change their license and drop support for the free open-source version like so many products have done in the past.
If a EU entity forks it and maintains it, then that'd be end-to-end sovereignty IMO.
That might be true philosophically, but tactically it makes no sense to fork until a potential future license change. Why lose the free maintenance from upstream?
But they hosted the repo on Microsoft-run GitHub ...
The public-facing mirror :-)