cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/6710937
Simple Mobile apps have been very popular among FOSS enthusiasts. I’ve personally been using the Gallery, Contacts and the Phone app since a few years now. It’s a shame that it has come to this, will be on the lookout for their forks.
Not necessarily Linux related, but figured this was important information to pass along, given the popularity of these FOSS apps on Android.
The fact that you can fork the code and make your own clean version, either for personal use or for distribution, is part of why most companies don’t usually bother with open source licenses to begin with - it’s just too hard to make the kind of monster-profits corporations and shareholders alike expect without inevitably provoking someone into forking their code and distributing a free, unmonetized version of the product. I’d be surprised if ZipoApps goes full-on monetization if they want people to keep using their versions of the apps, but if they do, it’s going to be a short-lived inconvenience until someone inevitably distributes a fork.