Added by Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli over 4 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.
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There is some discussions going on on potentially forbidding software of unknown licenses in the free software distribution guidelines (FSDG).
This affects our infrastructure as matterbridge has too much dependencies and they are all bundled inside matterbridge source code1.
So without reviewing all the dependencies, it's hard to know if the licenses are all free or if there is some incompatible licenses somewhere.
So it would probably be better to have an IRC bridge that has less dependencies and that can more easily be packaged in various distributions like Trisquel or Guix.
There is also another IRC bridge based on libpurple1.
So for promising IRC bridges, we could:The biggest constraints here is security: this bridge runs on the same VM than the Replicant source code, so we need security to really work. With matterbridge we did reuse Parabola's systemd service unit [3] that also sandboxes matterbridge. So the same thing would need to be done with the new IRC bridge.
Apart from security we also need the IRC bridge to support various features needed to properly connect to networks (SASL, etc) [4] and we also need Tor support in case we need to switch to Tor due to issues with our bridge IP address.
1 https://git.parabola.nu/~bill-auger/bridgin.git/
2 https://git.replicant.us/infrastructure/matterbridge/tree/
3 https://git.replicant.us/infrastructure/matterbridge/tree/matterbridge.service
4 https://git.replicant.us/infrastructure/matterbridge/tree/matterbridge.toml.example