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4mo ago

All Proton Drive apps are now open source

proton.me All Proton Drive apps are now open source | Proton

Proton Drive’s desktop apps are open source, meaning you can review the code of any Proton Drive app for yourself.

All Proton Drive apps are now open source | Proton

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It took me going to their GitHub to find out, but it’s GPL 3.
- really appreciate you reporting back, thanks for sharing!
- What does this mean practically
  
  It means it can't ever become proprietary closed-source software (not without a major lawsuit).
  
  It's pretty much not reversible and the code is free to use, modify, and distribute forever. And if you do modify it you also must make those changes open source.
  Very good news
  
  gpl v3 you can do pretty much anything but you have to put it the same license but it has like drm protections and Anti-Tivoization and also has some patent protections people find this license too strict
- Why the but? GPL 3 is the correct license to use for open source projects to ensure they stay open and corps don't freeload on them.
  
  English isn’t my first language. I share your opinion regarding the license. Which connector would you use instead of “but” to indicate that you succeeded in your efforts even though it was harder you thought it would be?
  
  AGPL would have been a bit better, especially for the server side

Very nice, I do hope that helps us finally get a Linux version sometime soon lol
- Feels like this would be a bigger win for them than a lot of other companies. The people interested in privacy focused alternative to the Google/Microsoft/Apple offerings probably have a lot of overlap with Linux users.
- I believe that rclone already has Proton Drive support.
  
  It does, yeah. Still, having access to the official client too would be nice.

sad its on github but am not complaining much
- can you educate me a bit about what's wrong with that?
  
  bcs github is owned by microsoft
  
  The workflow is also kind of obtuse.
  FD: I prefer GitLab between the two.
- You people are never satisfied!

Will they be now on FDroid? I think only one Proton app is there and it's a little bit sad.
- Proton VPN and proton pass
  IRRC they even removed all telemetry from pass but not VPN.
  They should definitely push drive and calendar there too.
  
  Why the fuck does their VPN have telemetry?

I started with their email services many years ago, and today I user their email + free calendar. To be true, they went too much far with all these apps, but as long as it works for them thats fine.

Awesome! Cant wait for their wallet thing to become ready and i hope they have support for many types of coins.. also i wish theyd make it so that proton drive work with joplin 😑
- they can only support one coin legally. for details check out the Opt Out podcasts's episode about this topic
  
  Can you give a summary of why that is?

I want to make the jump from Google apps but I can't because I use GCal heavily and Proton Calendar doesn't (yet) sync to GCal. I can enter in something in GCal and it'll appear in Proton Calendar, but I can't enter in something in Proton Calendar and it shows up in GCal. Hopefully they add that soon.
- If you want to move away from Google apps, why keep using Google Calendar? Maybe someone has a suggestion for a way to work with it if you say what your continued use case for it is and what kind of limitations you are working with.
  
  I have shared calendars with family and friends that I need to keep using.

So does it work reliably now?
- Did it not before? I'm not seeing any issues
  
  Drive sucks on Android (in my opinion). Severely lacking features.
  
  It’s okay for like the occasional individual file save. I tried a bulk transfer and wound up losing half my iCloud files. Also I frequently get errors when trying to save to there on iOS.

Yet i cant use more than one free account on the mobile app?

More copilot training data.
- Yeah I don't understand why they don't have a codeberg or similar that they host themselves.
  
  How would that help? If you release something as GPL code, you cannot prevent it from being used to train a model, no matter where it's hosted.

Oh it's open source? where are the serverside repositories then
- The title specifies that it's the apps that are open source.
- If it is running on the server you have no way of verifying the code or the execution environment.
  Theoretically you should now be able to self host proton
  
  TC says otherwise

proton is CIA
- How would that work? Proton is swiss and CIA is 'murica?
  
  I mean the "Crypto AG" was a thing. So not that unrealistic.
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/
  But that Proton is CIA is not that realistic imho but not impossible.

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