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

submitted 11 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] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Were the other simple apps forked as well, or just Gallery?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Everything was forked and should eventually end up on F-Droid, but most things haven't had a release yet. My understanding is that they're hoping to do everything right immediately, including having proper new branding and all the shared functionality from Simple Thank You.

The F-Droid versions of SMT apps are perfectly safe and shouldn't be going anywhere. (But if you have Google Play versions, I wouldn't trust those anymore, those are owned by ZipoApps now.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Cool, thanks for the info! All of mine are f-droid and figured they'd be okay for now. Definitely looking to switch though but I'm lazy and prefer to do things through f-droid lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They were, no new releases yet though except calendar