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FluxTube | Flutter/Dart YouTube Client! | This could be the new Newpipe
  • My bad. Yep, you are correct. I thought the GPL actually prevented you to sell compiled version of a GPL FOSS software (Outside of the original maintainer) but it seems it isn't compared to this one which force you to keep it free. There's also limitations on what you can remove so yep. Non-free. Seemed a bit Counter-intuitive to me in the first part. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.en.html

    I should probably suggest the GNU Foundation to check this license to compare it, as I often see question of FUTO software license online.

  • FluxTube | Flutter/Dart YouTube Client! | This could be the new Newpipe
  • Not in the usual sense, because you can still fully fork it, use it, modify it and redistribute it freely like a FOSS software.

    You may use or modify the software only for non-commercial purposes such as personal use for research, experiment, and testing for the benefit of public knowledge, personal study, private entertainment, hobby projects, amateur pursuits, or religious observance, all without any anticipated commercial application. You may distribute the software or provide it to others only if you do so free of charge for non-commercial purposes.

    The only limitation which make it non-free is :

    Notwithstanding the above, you may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor in any copy you distribute to others.

    I don't really understand if it "prevent you" to remove and/or prevent the modification of the donation to FUTO part of the code. Should not prevent you from adding yours on top of it (As in, adding a prompt as in "If you want to do donate to the project, you can donate to the original app owner (DONATE TO FUTO) or the maintainer of the fork you are using (DONATE TO THE MAINTAINER).) And the obvious limitation of making derivative work of it, non-free of course.

    Also, they do reserve themselves rights to abrodge the license for those who abridge it, which i don't know how legally useful it may be, for license violations compared to protecting the GPL licenses from violations for example.

    tl;dr : Seems FOSS to me, as long as :

    • You don't try to make it non-free
    • You don't remove the donation to FUTO part of the app
  • Thunderbird Beta for Android is now out!
  • Actually, you were right. The issue for me is that the original k9-mail repo did also released the current beta thunderbird version (and i think, one with still the k9 branding if needed). I was trying to switch to it via that repo, and didn't noticed the thunderbird fork listed the in the repo. There's no changes, outside of the releases only being thunderbird branded outside of all the previous k9-mail ones. If you were on k-9 mail, and want to switch to it on Obtainium, manually install the new version and mugrate your settings to it. And once it's all done, remove the k9-mail repo from Obtainium, and add that thunderbird one.

  • Thunderbird Beta for Android is now out!
  • Speaking off, I'm still having issues adding it, since it still get confused by the k9 original repo origin, even if i try to filter the pre-release .apk's with the thunderbird name. My bad, still kept the k9-mail repo instead of the thunderbird fork.

  • FluxTube | Flutter/Dart YouTube Client! | This could be the new Newpipe
  • Just not necessarily FOSS. The code is available and open to a certain limit. Not free however.

    https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/-/blob/master/LICENSE.md

  • 7 Things You Should Know Before Switching to GrapheneOS
  • GrapheneOS also made me give up my heterosexuality /j

  • MetaGer - An era comes to an end
  • If they are talking about changing search engine, this means they feel impacted by the change. The removal of the Free ad-supported tier. Very likely searching for a paid-search engine is necessary; otherwise, they would have just kept using MetaGer.

  • Today, I left windows behind for good
  • Mint is a good choice ! They have a decent help forum where you could ask for such help. Like this one for example. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=228884 Feel free to give more details here too, maybe i, or someone else here could help you with your specific Mac problem.

  • Today, I left windows behind for good
  • You'll get plenty of answers with different suggestions, so I'll suggest checking in that community for plenty of previous answers. I would say to stick with "main" known distribution and to ditch specialized ones. https://linux-myths.pages.dev/Single-Maintainer https://linux-myths.pages.dev/Distros

    I'm on Nobara but despite the fantastic work of GloriousEggRoll, it did had it's lot of breakage which made me want to switch to the suggested uBlue Fedora atomic builds, per those criterias.

  • Popular Shadow Library 'LibGen' Breaks Down Amidst Legal Troubles
  • Exxept that they are struggling for donations, but more important, mirrors and hosters.

  • Surveillance Watch – an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations
  • Yep, and Google own employees are forbidden to protest of that project, if they wish to keep their job.

  • Apple Maps on Web Now Supports Firefox Browser
  • You can. It just show you everything that need additional info. You can just choose to move the map to the shop you want to edit hours and do that. You can also filter the StreetComplete missions in the settings if you want to only update business hours and description.

  • Mozilla wants you to love Firefox again
  • What I don't get, but maybe because of the lack of information I have on the topic

    Exactly. That's also the issue there. It was opt-out by default AND didn't seemed to give enough info to the end-user about what it does, and why it would be better to keep it enabled. Most people, complain about the forced default decision without any notice, and without any appropriate info to understand if it was a decent change or not. You should only enable it, IF you understand and ablige to what it does.

  • Any Free speech, censorship resistant lemmy, mastodon and fediverse altrnatives ?
  • Exactly that. Each instances has it's own rules and as such, you can make your own on your own instance. Just don't be surprised that some instances block you for not abliging to their standards, as they also control their own federation, like each individual instances.

  • mstdn.social under DDOS attack
  • Oh no.

    Anyway, glad that Mastodon isn't down due to it's decentralized nature. That's something bad actors (such as those who are doing that DDOS) and most users (which make the mstdn.social instance and a few other ones, the main ~80% of all Mastodon) fail to to understand, the beauty of it.

    (Still feeling bad for the instance and it's users, despite the sarcastic tone)

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  • First. Let me explain some bits about the Play Store. You are using the Google Play store, so of course, it stores the list of installed apps on your Google account. That's fairly obvious. However, the relation with the apps generally end there. Some apps might have Google account integration (Google Games for example, or just as a login method) but not more than that. There's also potential Google ads and Crashalytics, but it ain't "directly" connected to your Google account (It link your device through an unique ID, which Google could correlate with your logged Google account on this device)

    That out of the way :

    • ProtonMail android app doesn't use any of those Google stuff in it.
    • You can download their app separately of the Google Play Store. Throught their website, source-code release or F-Droid (Depending of their project. Proton isn't consistency with those)
    • ProtonMail don't care about your Google account, outside of importing your emails into your new Protonnail account if you choose to do so.

    Also, there is still a privacy gain, from using an email address from Protonmail, but only when you use it. It is just a better and more private e-mail provider. If you keep using a Gmail and Outlook email, than you will still issues with those emails addresses be used and read, for ads and analytics.

    Do note you can use your protonmail address on your Google and Microsoft account. Those services just tend to automatically create an email account on their respectice services by default (Gmail & Outlook) but they aren't required.

  • Any AI image editing and manipulation software/projects?
  • Have you looked at the community you are referring to? Ain't FOSS. Instead, I would suggest https://removerized.tech/ (Locally in your browser AND hostable, under GPL-3) https://github.com/yossTheDev/removerized Or rembg https://github.com/danielgatis/rembg