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> Why? Is it some kind of hand-holding exercise because the F-Droid team don't trust devs to [snip] The F-Droid team don't and _shouldn't_ trust devs, period.
by piaste 5y ago
> Why? Is it some kind of hand-holding exercise because the F-Droid team don't trust devs to [snip]
The F-Droid team don't and _shouldn't_ trust devs, period.
Trusting them to build and submit their own APKs is how you get the Play Store.
- lucideer 5y agoYou've [snip]-ed the most important & relevant part of the quote. The Play Store doesn't ask for nor care for open-source licensing, so your conclusion doesn't make any sense.
- piaste 5y agoI've snipped the specifics you gave because I wanted to assert an even broader statement, including but not limited to what you referred to. My conclusion was probably not clear. I claim that if F-Droid allowed devs to submit their own APKs, it would open the gates to crapware authors providing a link to an apparently innocent github repo and then submitting APKs full of spyware, ads, crypto miners... I.e. the kind of crap you find in the Play Store.