I was looking for a good and quick file transfer method and stumbled upon Warp on Linux (flatpak). It says the app is open source but I did a quick Lemmy search and someone mentioned the protocol magic wormhole is closed.
Even though I found the application very useful, like I can transfer files even when connected to a VPN service, the closed source nature turns me off.
Also when operating without a VPN, wormhole connects via local network, my desktop is behind a firewall, but the transfer still happen! How does it do that without opening a port in f/w?
Any alternate suggestions are welcome as well.
Edit 1. The domain for the magic wormhole relay and transit server that most open source clients (like Warp) use is magic-wormhole.io. I have to check if they really are open source.
Edit 2. There seems to a mention of the magic-wormhole.io domain in their PyCon 2016 presentation.
Yeah totally. Here https://lemmy.world/comment/14783333
I think that wormhole.app page is different software from magic wormhole (and warp). It just has a similar name. wormhole.app does appear to be proprietary.
Warp uses magic-wormhole.io and my android client uses the same domain for its Rendezvous and Transit servers. I am still learning about what they really are.
So I think the mentioned URLs might be closed source, I don’t know. But the default ones that warp use is this magic-wormhole.io (relay and transit) seems to be open source ones.
ah yes, that, wormhole.app, that is closed source. (but if I am reading this correctly, some early iteration of it is open source. https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole )
Magic wormhole is a different thing.