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Why is Signal so reliant on Google? It's not even in F-Droid
I'm guessing its not fully open source, but I don't actually know.
The App is open source, but they include google push services, which is not
It is fully open-source. The distribution of the application is completely unrelated. You can still read the code and verify the build you're running.
Thanks for the clarification.