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  • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    Damn, how did I even manage to miss that Simple apps have been bought off? I’ve used them for years and am still subscribed to the reddit community…

    Some people suggest the action could possibly be deemed illegal, by breaking the licence the project was made under.

    https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241#issuecomment-1837452672 - the dev’s explanation, and replies which discuss the legal issues

    https://old.reddit.com/r/fossdroid/comments/1893j2p/simple_mobile_tools_is_about_to_be_acquired/

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      10 months ago

      Fossify has many of them, Gallery, Files and Calendar (the main ones) are already on F-Droid!

      • sms: deku sms, way better
      • phone: GrapheneOSses AOSP dialer, dont know if you get that seperately, or Welefon
      • music: so many alternatives, Vanilla Music is nice
      • keyboard: florisboard, openboard
      • phone: lol Pixel with GrapheneOS

      Its sad that the community did not donate enough. People dont care…

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            10 months ago

            more or less yes, but im not too familiar with the project. I was just looking for a FOSS keyboard with completion support. I know it has good support for plugins to use latin characters to write characters in other writing systems, like pinyín

    • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻@aussie.zone
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      10 months ago

      Provided that the developer can either remove contributed code or seek copyright licences from every contributor it can be done. Whether this did happen or not is unclear, the developer appears a little arrogant about having written the majority of the code, showing little appreciation towards minor contributors. We cannot tell whether the contributors gave permission for their code to be re-licenced or if their code was removed.

      Personally, when contributing to GPL projects I would expect that this kind of thing wouldn’t be possible. Using the GPL is a very philosophical choice of licence and is a move to say that you really care about your users