Comment on How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes

pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure that the licence also requires that you link to the source code you can’t just have it up “somewhere” and just expect people to find it.

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  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yep. Relevant sentence bolded by me below

    6d) Convey the object code by offering access from a designated place (gratis or for a charge), and offer equivalent access to the Corresponding Source in the same way through the same place at no further charge. You need not require recipients to copy the Corresponding Source along with the object code. If the place to copy the object code is a network server, the Corresponding Source may be on a different server (operated by you or a third party) that supports equivalent copying facilities, provided you maintain clear directions next to the object code saying where to find the Corresponding Source. Regardless of what server hosts the Corresponding Source, you remain obligated to ensure that it is available for as long as needed to satisfy these requirements.

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “yeah my code is open source, it’s somewhere on this site I’m just not gonna tell you where it is.”

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  • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The requirement in the licence is that the source code or a link to it is distributed along with the binaries

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• Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  violated the terms of the GPL

  Well we don’t know that, the terms say that you need to make the source available to people who got the binary. Either ship them together or ship a written offer for obtaining the source with the binary. You do not have to make the source available to the public (but any of your customers could).

  To verify your claim we would have to get the binary from them, and check if source or an offer for it was included.

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