• Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Ah I wasn’t aware, I just assumed that even if it’s from its own repository, it is still on F-droid

    Edit: reading the license, seems open source enough but I don’t have a legal background so I’m not the most well versed in that stuff, as long as code it open is the bare minimum for me.

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      6 hours ago

      even if it’s from its own repository, it is still on F-droid

      There is nothing to stop anyone from running their own f-droid repo and distributing non-free software through it, which is what futo is doing.

      seems open source enough

      This is the definition. Compare it with Futo’s license; it fails to meet both the Open Source Definition and Free Software Definition in several ways. After insisting they could redefine the term for a while (despite the definition’s wide acceptance) and inspiring some of their very vocal fans to promulgate their dishonest argument on their behalf, Futo themselves finally came around and agreed to stop calling their software open source.