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So are you telling me I can run my signal server and use it to communicate with others on the signal network?

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You can run your signal server and use it to communicate with others on your signal network.

The openness or otherwise of the code has literally nothing to do with the terms of use of any service being run.

No.

The product _is_ the network. By restricting access to the network, access to the product is also curtailed.

You originally asked about running your signal server. Now you're talking about the network that's hosted through Signal Inc's servers.

So what's your point? Do you think everyone should have a right to connect to their servers however they like, and the service operator can't exert any control over that?

I am telling you that "They also refuse to open source their server software." is false.

Signal typically delay releasing the server source code, so the latest version of the server is not open source. In one case it took them almost a year (no public commits between 20 April 2020 and 6 April 2021).

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/11101#iss...

Among the official reasons given was staying ahead of spammers. In this instance it was also speculated that the payment function which they were building into the server was to remain secret.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/11101#iss...

You seem to be confusing open source for a federated protocol.

Signal is not federated, as an explicit design decision.

The source code for the server and the client are both free software.

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