Hello Alessandro, I'm not sure that this is the best mailing list for such a discussion. On Sun, Feb 2, 2025, 07:02 Alessandro Greco wrote:
> At this point I started doing some research for alternatives and found out > that a decade ago there was LibreSignal[2], this project died due to > technical support opposition (basically servers) from the creator of > Signal[3], or at least that's what I could tell from the discussion there. > The code base for Signal is free. You are allowed to fork it, but the original maintainers would prefer that you didn't use it to contact their official clients. Their technical argument is that the message format might change (so they are actively against federation). This fork claims to be without the nonfree dependencies: https://www.twinhelix.com/apps/signal-foss/ Maybe it would be possible to work with the project on stabilizing the message format and then enabling federation? The FSF listed working with the project as something that has high priority: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/voicevideochat Getting to the point, I decided to write to this mailinglist to ask if > there are any smartphone device users who can recommend me some free > alternatives but more importantly if there is anything somehow “certified” > by the FSF. > If nothing exists for the smartphone then I would settle for some libre > desktop app. > The FSF certifies licenses as "free". Then the Free Software Directory contains lists of programs that use those free licenses. I suggest that you start looking there: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Category/Chat Jan
