Is GPL really necessary?

[brunomaximom]

Describe the solution you'd like Use the same license or similar as WebClient.

Describe alternatives you've considered MIT, BSD 3-clause, Apache or, if copyleft is necessary, MPL.

Additional context If I'm working for a softhouse and we're developing an ios app and I'm looking for useful code here at github and I find one useful class from ProtonMail project. If this softhouse develops softwares under any license but GPL, then I cannot reuse this class in anyway =/.

[abjurato]

At the moment, making the clients code reusable is not among our priorities. A quote from our announcement:

Open source provides transparency and accountability to the Proton community. Allowing people to see and review our code increases trust in both the security of the platform and our commitment to develop a more secure and private Internet. By making our code available to the world, and with the help of our bug bounty program, we can leverage the global Proton community to make our software as secure as possible.