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What is free software?

Free software is software that respects the 4 software freedoms. The 4 freedoms are

The freedom to run the run the program
The freedom to study the source code
The freedom to modify the source code
The freedom to distribute modified versions of the source code

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Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project (www.theregister.com)

submitted 6 months ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/freesoftware@lemmy.zip

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[–] undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Since this is going to be enforced through Google Services custom ROMs like GrapheneOS will not be affected. Of course if F-Droid no longer exists, that means we lose the largest centralized repository of open source apps which is a huge blow. There are other ways of installing and updating open source apps like Obtainium. But the big thing with F-Droid is that it also provides discoverability.