> Moxie has been quite clear that Signal is not to be distributed on F-Droid, that seems not likely to change.
IIRC his main arguments were really a different signature and delays in updates.
Since these reasons will not exist anymore in the case of reproducible builds (the Signal app could still prompt for updates itself) from Signal being distributed on F-Droid, I don't think we can assume that Signal would not be fine with the APK distributed on F-Droid.
From a quick glance, the main reason left now seems to be that Signal still relies on the Play services libraries at compile-time (not necessarily at runtime), which are proprietary and thus not acceptable for F-Droid. Signal does not want to support a fork with these libraries completely removed.
IIRC his main arguments were really a different signature and delays in updates.
Since these reasons will not exist anymore in the case of reproducible builds (the Signal app could still prompt for updates itself) from Signal being distributed on F-Droid, I don't think we can assume that Signal would not be fine with the APK distributed on F-Droid.
From a quick glance, the main reason left now seems to be that Signal still relies on the Play services libraries at compile-time (not necessarily at runtime), which are proprietary and thus not acceptable for F-Droid. Signal does not want to support a fork with these libraries completely removed.