The apple store always distribute apps under a proprietary license. So even if the code is open-source, if you install it on your device through the apple store you are still installing proprietary software.<p>They say on their Github page that their app is licensed under GPLv3. Yet they can't publish it under GPLv3 license to the apple store. This means that if you contribute to the project under the GPLv3 license, they can't redistribute your through the apple store. So if you contribute your code it will always have to be licensed under a permissive license.<p>Still can't wait for the F-Droid release though.
I’ve been so happy with ProtonMail as a strategy to store any email I receive with dollar signs in it (to avoid google’s vacuuming it up into “purchases” and “reservations” dashboards, which I find exceptionally creepy on a paid gsuite account)<p>ProtonMail provides a lot of value for the small dollar amount per month! So happy to see the new mail beta, and now open source for the iOS app!<p>Very excited for protondrive now. Google Drive is usually fine but I never feel comfortable storing scans of IDs or tax documents there.
I love Protonmail, me and my entire family would have already been on it with a nice custom domain if that wouldn't cost me 32 euro's a month (4 mailboxes: me, wife and 2 kids, per year payment reduces it to 25/month). I now pay 6.05 euro's for that at Transip (can go up to 5 addresses + hosting space, 3 addresses is 3 euro's). I like Protonmail more, better, cleaner webUI, focus on privacy, nice app... but it's really really expensive.
Does this mean that the app could be forked to support multiple accounts (which is currently not possible for the free tier users with the official app)?
Beyond all the other benefits of this, hopefully it means more general feature updates/bug fixes. There are several (minor) bugs in the app that have existed for some time now, and it doesn't yet support iOS dark mode, for example. I know they don't have a huge team and are focused on the web app and security, but it would be exciting if the iOS app started getting a bit more love.
I wonder if the ProtonMail server will ever be open source. It'd be pretty cool to see the code and possibly self host, although having source code available might allow spammers to abuse the system.
Does that mean we can get rid of the “Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.”<p>Also, Can someone with more experience than me in licensing explain why we couldn't bundle up a fork of the app and release in on ios App store?
This is awesome! I think they'll actually get a lot of help with this client. I for one am going to change a few things that I'll be they'll mainline.