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Fossify Gallery is now on F-Droid, and Simple Gallery got removed due to a proprietary dependency (beehaw.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Fossify Gallery on the official F-Droid repo

The removal isn't directly related to the buyout/fork. Simple Gallery was taken off of F-Droid due to a dependency on the nonfree Google VR being discovered by IzzySoft¹ ². Fossify's fork has removed the dependent features to be compliant³.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Why?

If it ain't broke, why does it need an update?

I have apps that are 10 years old and work fine. This "continual update" thing is just so weird.

I have 20 year old apps on Windows that still work just fine.

Some of my Android apps' newer versions have issues that I don't care for, so I run the older version (e.g. Foldersync, Tasks.org).

The last version of SMT apps before the buyout should work indefinitely...they are simple after all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (6 children)

The SMT apps after the buyout, are not necessarily bad either, it's up to the new owners whether they want to keep a FOSS version as advertisement, or not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Aren't there outside contributors? How can they relicense it without their permission?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

they don't care and as long as no court ruled, they do what they want, which will probably work out for them

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