Re: [Linphone-developers] Concerns with GCM use in Android Linphone

[Liviu Andronic]

Dear Sylvain,

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Sylvain Berfini
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Liviu,
>
> Google Cloud Messaging isn't a chat library, but a push notification
> library.
> It can be removed from Linphone safely and won't break the chat, it will
> just prevent linphone to receive push notifications.
>
Thanks a lot for clearing this up. I will forward the info to the
F-Droid maintainers.

Best regards,
Liviu


> Cheers.
>
> ---
> Sylvain Berfini
> Software Engineer @ Belledonne Communications
>
> Le 2014-10-02 22:19, Liviu Andronic a écrit :
>>
>> Dear Devels,
>> As per:
>> https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/org.linphone
>> Anti-Feature: Non-Free dependency. Linphone uses Google Cloud
>> Messaging, which is a free software library but only works if the user
>> has a Google account on their phone.
>>
>> Some Linphone users will use Linphone without a Google account on
>> their phone. And as such it seems quite limiting and not in the
>> open-source spirit to disallow chatting in Linphone with a Google
>> account.
>>
>> Are you considering dropping this dependency in favor of something
>> less constrained and privacy-challenged?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Liviu
>>
>>
>> --
>> Do you think you know what math is?
>> http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02
>> Or what it means to be intelligent?
>> http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30
>> Think again:
>> http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
>>
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-- 
Do you think you know what math is?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02
Or what it means to be intelligent?
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30
Think again:
http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library