Post #2814566
2026-04-25 11:43 UTC
@duxsco@fedifreu.de @giacomo 👍
It is confusing that two related but separate issues are overlapping here:
1) There is a Free Software codebase (GnuPG), the code of which is not "proprietary software" in the FSF sense.
2) However, this Free Software project is increasingly an implementation of a format ("LibrePGP") that is developed in a proprietary manner, in an entirely intransparent process.
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@duxsco@fedifreu.de 2026-04-25 11:58
@hko@floss.social @giacomo If I have to choose between non-proprietary software or non-proprietary standards, I choose later. With GnuPG, however, you have non-proprietary software with a proprietary standard. This makes the development of alternative software cumbersome, because you have to count on the goodwill of Werner.