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I am more concerned about the licensing issues. Seems that the original author recieved some external contribution in GPLv3.
He thinks that he doesn't need to care about external contributions since he wrote over 90% of the code lol
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Note that the fork Fossify Gallery is already available on F-Droid. The rest of the apps aren't yet. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fossify.gallery/ Thanks to this debacle, I'll actually be trying it out. What I have used out of Simple Mobile Tools is the Dialer. It allowed me to make my old phone usable for calls again. The phone, which runs an outdated release of LineageOS and doesn't receive updates, develope…
Aaah that does it, thanks. My phone started having the exact same issue the other day. Finding a fix was on my to do list, and you saved me some time, thanks!
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He thinks that he doesn't need to care about external contributions since he wrote over 90% of the code lol
he claims it's 99% by him and paid contributors. to verify you'd have to ask any major contributors if they have been paid.
Latest version in F-Droid of Calendar is dated 2023-10-08. I haven't checked whether that version exfiltrates user's data. I'd be more concerned about any subsequent versions. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.calend...
It's highly unlikely that any F-Droid versions are going to be released by the ad-ware company. This company doesn't publish code as open source, and tibbi (original creator of SMT) is of the opinion that relicensing the code isn't a big deal because they wrote almost all of it. https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...
The fact remains that the sale wasn't announced and many users found it inadvertently. Many more may still be unaware that the apps they believe to be open source have turned into spyware/deceptiveware. The author seems to have sold the privacy of unsuspecting users to a spyware company. The situation isn't as simple or innocent as 'I wrote most of the code so I have the right to do it.
It's extremely annoying when open source software terms are changed and the authors downplay the impact like this. It also applies to other cases like browser extensions and cloud software. Besides privacy, they also disregard the contributions and promotions others make.
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It's highly unlikely that any F-Droid versions are going to be released by the ad-ware company. This company doesn't publish code as open source, and tibbi (original creator of SMT) is of the opinion that relicensing the code isn't a big deal because they wrote almost all of it. https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issu...
> tibbi (original creator of SMT) is of the opinion that relicensing the code isn't a big deal because they wrote almost all of it. The fact remains that the sale wasn't announced and many users found it inadvertently. Many more may still be unaware that the apps they believe to be open source have turned into spyware/deceptiveware. The author seems to have sold the privacy of unsuspecting users to a spyware company.…
Anyway, donations coming for Naveen Singh!
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What did you find for a gallery? I never found an open one I liked other than simple gallery.
Gallery [0] and Glimpse (byLineageOS) [1] are some good choices, both designed with Material You. I use the first one on a daily basis. [0]: https://github.com/IacobIonut01/Gallery [1]: https://github.com/lineage-next/android_packages_apps_Glimps...
Scrolling is a bit choppy unfortunately, though.
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I doubt that F-Droid would accept their code, also the Adware Toolkits would all need to be also GPL Licensed, otherwise it would be a license violation
I should've been more clear: they don't necessarily do the same thing for squeezing value out of open source users that they do out of Play Store users. F-Droid makes sure they can build the code themselves, but I don't think they vet everything the code does. And Android permission model doesn't control network use well.
What I don't understand is that the Play store are still receiving updates like yesterday. Where is that code? Who is the developer? They still advertise as OSS applications.
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I am more concerned about the licensing issues. Seems that the original author recieved some external contribution in GPLv3.
He thinks that he doesn't need to care about external contributions since he wrote over 90% of the code lol
Basically, I can't copyright an "article" which only says "This is an article." — there is high probability of someone coming up with the exact same wording, so you can't get protections for it. How much is too much is definitely left up to the interpretation.
Finally, unless one of those contributors takes him to court (external party like EFF or FSF can't protect your rights, you have to do it yourself), it's unlikely he should care. If one or two people do, there's also a relatively cheap option of rewriting just those parts too: court won't try to challenge other possible license issues.
Naveen Singh is leading Fossify and these projects. If you admire open source and volunteer projects, and if you're able to donate or sponsor, here's a way: https://github.com/naveensingh