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Dan Brown (danb@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 12:54:23 JST Dan Brown
in reply to
- Viktor Nagornyy
- It's FOSS
@itsfoss @viktor Thanks. Although the disclaimer is far far below the fold, and after labelling Skiff as open source 4 times, including within the title and subtitle which is being re-shared across the web so further pushing this misrepresentation of open source.

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Dan Brown (danb@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 20:40:31 JST Dan Brown
in reply to
- Viktor Nagornyy
- It's FOSS
@viktor @itsfoss
Additionally, most of the code they do provide is not open source either: https://github.com/skiff-org/skiff-apps/issues/94
This has been voiced to @itsfoss but they don't seem to care:
https://itsfoss.community/t/avoid-skiff-com-falsely-advertising-as-open-source/10968
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1. Issues · skiff-org/skiff-apps
  
  Privacy-first, end-to-end encrypted Mail, Pages, Drive, and Calendar. - Issues · skiff-org/skiff-apps
2. Avoid Skiff.com: falsely advertising as open source
  
  Hello! The email software startup Skiff advertises their email client as “open source” on multiple occasions through their website. But if you look in their Github repo, you can see that their license is actually CC-BY-NC-SA (sorry, new user, have to limit on links https://github.com/skiff-org/skiff-apps/blob/main/LICENSE). You can quickly find, that the software is not open source, because it restricts use commercially. I find it sad that even It’s FOSS News has gotten tricked by their false...

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