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qaul.net – قول
Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App
qaul is a decentralised networking project, aiming to create a peer2peer wireless mesh communication app for messaging, filesharing, and voice calls.
The project currently undergoes a complete rewrite in Rust. In order to be able to run on unpriviledged mobile platforms qaul.net implements decentralised routing protocols and utilities entirely in userspace. You are warmly invited to be part of this endeavour!
The old version 1.0 is in the independent release-1.0.0 branch of this repository.
Components
Components have additional information in their respective README files.
| Component | Description |
|---|---|
| clients | qaul.net end-user applications for various platforms |
| docs | Manuals (for both users and developers), and tools to build and deploy documentation |
| emberweb | Cross-platform web interface bundled in with various user clients |
| libqaul | Core library of the qaul.net ecosystem. Provides networking abstractions, user management and discovery |
| licenses | Set of license texts that are in use in this repository |
| netmods | Platform-specific networking interface drivers |
| ratman | A decentralised and modular userspace frame router |
| tests | Integrated test suite for various components. Most of the code also has inline tests |
| utils | Set of utilities that are used in various places and don't fit anywhere else |
Overview
qaul.net aims to solve this issue by creating decentralised circuits between devices directly. These direct device-to-device connections can be imperfect and unstable. qaul.net's routing approach takes these issues into account by caching undelivered messages, and carrying them towards their destination until the recepient comes back online.
Routing in a qaul.net network is done via a user's ed25519 public keys, creating a 32 byte large address space. Connecting devices together happens via channel-specific drivers (for example the tcp internet overlay). Therefore when creating a circuit, roaming between different connection types is normal, and no single technology has to work on all possible devices.
To learn more about the technical side of qaul.net, check out the qaul.net manual.
qaul.net Manual
To join the development of qaul.net, read the qaul.net Social processes, code, and design guidelines are outlined in the [contributor manual].
License
qaul.net is free software licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 or later.
Additional Permissions: For Submission to the Apple App Store:
Provided that you are otherwise in compliance with the AGPLv3 for each covered work you convey (including without limitation making the Corresponding Source available in compliance with Section 6 of the AGPLv3), the qaul.net developers also grant you the additional permission to convey through the Apple App Store non-source executable versions of the Program as incorporated into each applicable covered work as Executable Versions only under the Mozilla Public License version 2.0.
A copy of both the AGPL-3.0 and MPL-2.0 license texts are included in this repository, along other external licenses for third-party code, and can be found in the licenses directory.