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by RustyRussell 252 days ago
I want signal to act as a transport bus. In particular, I want to give certain contacts permission to ask my phone for its location, so I can give my wife that ability without sharing it with Google.

Signal has solved the identity part, now encourage others to build apps on it.

(2fa via Signal would be better than SMS, too, though I know this may be controversial!)
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mustache_kimono 252 days ago
> Signal has solved the identity part, now encourage others to build apps on it.

Doesn't the fact that nobody has built apps on it indicate the license (AGPL 3) is a real issue for its ecosystem?

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komali2 252 days ago
I'm not seeing how you could draw that conclusion. The more likely explanation is that they are telling people not to build apps around it (and I assume thus the apis aren't well designed for adoption by other apps).

> This repository is used by the Signal client apps (Android, iOS, and Desktop) as well as server-side. Use outside of Signal is unsupported.

https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal

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ZeWaka 252 days ago
Isn't the lack of an SDK the problem, not the LICENSE?
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