Re: [D*] Diaspora App

[Greg Troxel]

folklorin <mr.b...@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello, everybody,
>
> As I had a look, Diaspora* has some apps on Play store and 1 Iphone
> app. If we as a community want to promote freedom and put ourselves
> against Facebook or Twitter,

As a perhaps amusing (and perhaps not) comment, I thought the next
sentence was going to rail against how app stores control users and are
hostile to free software, and how you found that #disturbing.

> we need to have a great mobile app, cause 60 % of social network users
> do that mobile. I have some ideas concerning it. If you are
> interested, feel free to ask.

I would guess that these mobile apps are indepdendent of the main
codebase; presumably the iPhone one would need to be BSD licensed or
similar so that it can be distributed by Apple under non-free terms.
I'm not saying that's bad, but it's quite a ways from AGPL3.

So I would be curious to hear what your approach is to the licensing
issue, and what behavior you see useful in a dedicated app vs using a
web browser. Does it have something to do with hooking into push
notifications?