markpash
commented
1 month ago Hi, I will consider doing this soon, though it's not high up in the list of priorities. There's many bugs that I am trying to focus on first.
Open parcelcat opened 1 month ago
markpash
commented
1 month ago Hi, I will consider doing this soon, though it's not high up in the list of priorities. There's many bugs that I am trying to focus on first.
parcelcat
commented
1 month ago Thank you for considering this!
After taking a closer look, I now realize that bepass-org/oblivion is under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license and bepass-org/oblivion-desktop has a restrictive license, both of which do not qualify as free and open source according to F-Droid's inclusion policy.
I would really appreciate it if you would consider licensing these projects under a free and open source license to qualify for inclusion in the official F-Droid repository and other FOSS initiatives. If you are concerned about Oblivion being used for commercial purposes by companies that don't contribute back, a strong copyleft license such as AGPLv3 would require all derivative works to be released with source code under the same copyleft license so that any useful changes can be incorporated back into Oblivion.
javidshah2
commented
1 week ago Thank you for considering this!
After taking a closer look, I now realize that bepass-org/oblivion is under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license and bepass-org/oblivion-desktop has a restrictive license, both of which do not qualify as free and open source according to F-Droid's inclusion policy.
I would really appreciate it if you would consider licensing these projects under a free and open source license to qualify for inclusion in the official F-Droid repository and other FOSS initiatives. If you are concerned about Oblivion being used for commercial purposes by companies that don't contribute back, a strong copyleft license such as AGPLv3 would require all derivative works to be released with source code under the same copyleft license so that any useful changes can be incorporated back into Oblivion.
I also agree that the official F-Droid version should be released as soon as possible.
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Please consider releasing Oblivion through the official F-Droid repository as an alternative to Google Play. Google services are not available in all countries, while F-Droid is available everywhere. The official F-Droid repository is mirrored by servers in many countries, including a server operated by Cloudflare.
Although Oblivion is on fdroid.noql.net, having Oblivion in the official F-Droid repository would increase awareness and availability of this incredible app. I had to specifically search for alternative Warp clients to find Oblivion, and would have otherwise never discovered this app.
Also, F-Droid maintainers screen apps for security and privacy issues, which affords apps in the official F-Droid repository a higher level of trust.