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On the flip side maybe Fdroid will take off. Is fdroid open source repos only? If Bytedance was gutsy they could release an open source version of tiktok. They
by euix 6y ago
On the flip side maybe Fdroid will take off. Is fdroid open source repos only? If Bytedance was gutsy they could release an open source version of tiktok. They could keep their algo as closed off either as compiled code or for the app to make API calls?
The rest of the code base, everyone could see.
- rvz 6y ago> On the flip side maybe Fdroid will take off. Is fdroid open source repos only? FLOSS repos I guess, but they are 'opinionated' in which open source software they allow on f-droid which this statement goes against the entire idea of FLOSS. Even if the software is open source and free software [0]. As you said, Bytedance must essentially do the same thing as Telegram and relicense it as GPL3 [1]. That includes everything. [0] https://www.f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html https://www.f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html [1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.telegram.messenger/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.telegram.messenger/ > If Bytedance was gutsy they could release an open source version of tiktok. They could keep their algo as closed off either as compiled code or for the app to make API calls? Hence the above, I don't see this happening.
- em-bee 6y agof-droid clients support multiple repos. the main repo is just one. in the f-droid forums you can find others which employ different policies.