Re: [Linphone-users] linphone, still free?

[Narcis Garcia]

El 28/10/24 a les 22:21, Greg Troxel ha escrit:
> Narcis Garcia <narcisgarcia@gilug.org> writes:
>
> > Today begun a discussion about Linphone licenses versus default setup
> > questions to user.
> >
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/directory-discuss/2024-10/msg00000.html
>
> Thanks for sending that pointer.
>
> I agree that asking a user to click to agree is not allowable by the
> Free Software definition.
>
> As for F-Droid and upstream partly non-Free, I don't know in this case
> but often programs for Android that claim to be Free actually use
> proprietary Google libraries and link those libraries into the apk.
> Thus the resulting apk is not Free Software.  One could read the build
> scripts to find out!

The doubt that remains in debate:
Linphone ask user to accept their T&C and privacy policy even if the 
user then chooses to configure an external SIP account.

I add: This generares confusion on user that can think external SIP 
usage implies some personal/meta/data is shared with linphone.org

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Narcis Garcia