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Fossify Gallery is now on F-Droid, and Simple Gallery got removed due to a proprietary dependency (beehaw.org)
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Fossify Gallery on the official F-Droid repo

The removal isn't directly related to the buyout/fork. Simple Gallery was taken off of F-Droid due to a dependency on the nonfree Google VR being discovered by IzzySoft¹ ². Fossify's fork has removed the dependent features to be compliant³.

  1. https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/14284
  2. https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Gallery/issues/36
  3. https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Gallery/issues/36#issuecomment-1873458105
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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago

They may end up in the F-Droid Archive repo over time.