this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2024
794 points (98.8% liked)

Privacy

31876 readers
1 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Related communities

Chat rooms

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Title

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 80 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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/

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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...

[–] CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago

To add to this, Fossify just released their phone app. It hasn't hit the repos yet, but it's on their github.

[–] NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

fcitx on Android is a pretty good keyboard experience now too.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you explain what that is and how it works? Is it a Keyboard with Plugins?

[–] NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years 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

[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Over the years there have been a few times I tried to communicate with the developer, and he was always arrogant.

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

yeah tibor was known for that