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Re: linphone, still free?
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Lorenzo L. Ancora |
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Re: linphone, still free? |
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Fri, 08 Nov 2024 22:24:14 +0100 |
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> 2) F-Droid claims and warns users that the software has an anti-feature:
> "part of the upstream source code is not free."
>> I haven't found any nonfree dependencies and couldn't find any details about
>> them on f-droid.
>>> 𝗜𝘀 𝗙-𝗗𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗚𝗡𝗨'𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 "𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲" 𝗮𝗻𝗱
>>> "𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲"? 🤔
>>>> I was looking for more details about the "upstream source code" and
>>>> couldn't find any on f-droid
Not your fault. Explanations are hard to find. I think the average visitors
would easily desist.
Explanations:
- https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/2256
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https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/commit/5032f4c15db935c9603d494be0f4de0d9555c6d4#23aceb5557460e6d4e4e613512f604e30759228b_22_28
F-Droid's latest build is 5.2.5 (May 9, 2024).
They often alter the offered codebases, so you might want to perform a direct
evaluation of the upstream repository.
Upstream source-code for 5.2.5 (May 3, 2024), authored by Belledonne
Communications:
https://gitlab.linphone.org/BC/public/linphone-android/-/tree/cce13828d9e63f650f5f01b59df58982805fc9e4
I hope this lightens your task. 👋
~Lorenzo