Signal/Wickr on F-Droid 2021?

relan · January 15, 2021, 4:30pm

Pretty sure signal is not proprietary

Signal includes a lot of proprietary libraries:

signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/ff11609a823fc95bee9d438183a4ee95fe011ab2/app/build.gradle#L321


      
          implementation 'androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-common-java8:2.1.0'
          implementation "androidx.camera:camera-core:1.0.0-beta11"
          implementation "androidx.camera:camera-camera2:1.0.0-beta11"
          implementation "androidx.camera:camera-lifecycle:1.0.0-beta11"
          implementation "androidx.camera:camera-view:1.0.0-alpha18"
          implementation "androidx.concurrent:concurrent-futures:1.0.0"
          implementation "androidx.autofill:autofill:1.0.0"
          implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-ml-vision:24.0.3'
          implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-ml-vision-face-model:20.0.1'
          
          implementation ('com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:20.2.0') {
              exclude group: 'com.google.firebase', module: 'firebase-core'
              exclude group: 'com.google.firebase', module: 'firebase-analytics'
              exclude group: 'com.google.firebase', module: 'firebase-measurement-connector'
          }
          
          implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:16.1.0'
          implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:16.0.1'
          
          implementation 'com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-core:2.9.1'
          implementation 'com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer-ui:2.9.1'

Thus the app as a whole is proprietary.