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Fyi, the futo keyboard isn't open source. The license heavily restricts against who can modify it and for what purpose. https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/latinime/-/blob/master/LICENSE.md?ref_type=heads
Exactly, that's more than good enough for me. This model should be encouraged for companies trying to make profit, it gives the individual privacy and protects their work from being stolen by other malicious companies.
my comment got removed but i said that non-commercial licenses are good to not let companies use open-source project for their malicious closed source applications. Mods removing this is wild... But they will not silence me no matter which million dollar company they lick up to
Ah I wasn't aware, I just assumed that even if it's from its own repository, it is still on F-droid
Edit: reading the license, seems open source enough but I don't have a legal background so I'm not the most well versed in that stuff, as long as code it open is the bare minimum for me.
There is nothing to stop anyone from running their own f-droid repo and distributing non-free software through it, which is what futo is doing.
This is the definition. Compare it with Futo's license; it fails to meet both the Open Source Definition and Free Software Definition in several ways. After insisting they could redefine the term for a while (despite the definition's wide acceptance) and inspiring some of their very vocal fans to promulgate their dishonest argument on their behalf, Futo themselves finally came around and agreed to stop calling their software open source.
Is it vulnerable to enshittification?
Once Luis Rossman dies likely....
Until then, i trust that bro
it is, you just can't understand what open-source means, even though it is in its name
FYI, nearly everyone (including Futo themselves), except for some Futo fans like yourself who haven't gotten the memo, agrees that this is the definition of "open source" (and Futo's license obviously does not qualify).
Other comments in this thread suggesting that Futo keyboard is open source have been deleted as offtopic.
all I hear is yapping, I can read, modify, and redistribute the source, what's the big deal?
no, they delete it because they can't tolerate the truth and they resort to censorship. Orwell has seen this and wrote a book about it
Whoa, I found the discussion rather insightful 😕
This license, plus that the app require microphone access, plus all the AI features, make my BS alarm go bzzz.