Copycat on Google Play - Githubissues

CorvetteCole / GotoSleep

An Android app that helps you manage a healthy sleep schedule. Licensed under the GPLv3 license

GNU General Public License v3.0

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Copycat on Google Play #19

Open Poussinou opened 4 years ago

Poussinou commented 4 years ago

Hi @CorvetteCole

I found this app : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droidfactory.sleeptimer on the Google Play Store. This guy just took your source code, added some ads an even IAP in it and put it on the Store, without warning this is free software...

As you are the owner of the source code, feel free to open a request to google here to remove this copy from the Store, if it's your wish ;)

Don't forget to tell Google that:

The app is licensed under GNU GPL v3 license and this guy is violating it;
He is falsely claiming he made the app;
Provide some screenshots of your own app.

aharish commented 4 years ago

I've pinged @CorvetteCole elsewhere about this. Thanks for reporting this @Poussinou. Much appreciated! :)

CorvetteCole commented 4 years ago

submitted a DMCA complaint, thanks

1u commented 3 years ago

Again?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=insinncom.sleep.time_reminder

CorvetteCole commented 3 years ago

@1u thanks for the heads up... time to get another app removed...

1u commented 3 years ago

You're welcome. Thx for developing the app! It's very helpful for me.

Btw: Why did you take it off the play store? I mean, you can still rewrite it while keeping it there 🙃

I see a big potential in it.. cot a new slogan for you: "tired of your alarm clock in the morning? Set it in the evening!" "..so you can wake up naturally." I'm not a native speaker, guess you can put it more catchy.

See you Greets from Switzerland

aharish commented 3 years ago

Btw: Why did you take it off the play store? I mean, you can still rewrite it while keeping it there upside_down_face

I think the author does not want to give people the false hope that they are working on a new version and that is why it is no longer being supported.

I think they do plan on coming back to this project soon-ish, so all hope is not lost! They will eventually end up releasing the new version on the Play Store, but for now I think it is still available on F-Droid in case any one wants to use the application.