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Unofficial Signal Desktop installer for Linux

7 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2022-11-03 · latest 2022-11-07

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  1. …their snap is available*, and you can see all it does is repackage upstream's official package. * https://github.com/snapcrafters/signal-desktop/blob/master/s...
  2. …see it here now in both places > https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/what-happened-to-signal-desktop... & https://github.com/snapcrafters/signal-desktop/issues/70#iss... .
  3. …is AGPLv3: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop 2. The snap package metadata is AGPLv3: https://github.com/snapcrafters/signal-desktop So, this looks like a fraudulent DMCA claim by Signal, as the snap package maintainers and…
  4. …Snapcraft ( https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/what-happened-to-signal-desktop... ) and GitHub threads ( https://github.com/snapcrafters/signal-desktop/issues/70 ) too? I was going to just now and cross link back here to your comment and figured…
  5. This issue was also raised on their GitHub https://github.com/snapcrafters/signal-desktop/issues/70
  6. …had to remove the snap in accordance with our policies. We hope to have it back shortly. 1. https://github.com/snapcrafters/signal-desktop/issues/70#iss... 2. https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/what-happened-to-signal-desktop...
  7. …click "Install") from a downloaded snap file, as they probably want you to use their app store. 1. https://github.com/snapcrafters/signal-desktop/issues/70#iss...