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That’s great that you spent some time researching this – good job, I didn’t know about this caveat, thank you for informing me. However, I have no affiliation with the company and recommend to ask about this issue from Beeper team directly.

Element is in full right to multi license their code

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-licensing

Maybe they agreed on different license (paid for it) with element directly

Beeper

Can’t be used without a (free) Spotify account?