About the only benefit I can personally see from this is the ability to fully integrate F-Droid as an app store in my device, with proper automatic background updates, and without requiring root solutions that void my work's security measures for mobile devices. On the other hand, I can see Huawei, Amazon, and Epic jumping to the fray with their own app stores and system services, and maybe Google Play being far more lenient with subscription services like Spotify's in their own App Store. Altogether, I personally loathe Epic's approach, but appreciate the consequences of their lawsuit.
csolisr
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Hopefully that's the case! And hopefully somebody steps in legally in case the new developers decide to just ignore the GPL terms.
If all the developers of the GPLv3 version agree to relicense their contributions, it's unfortunately possible to close-source further versions of the source code. Does somebody know if Simple Apps accepted external contributions?
I mean, a fork is indeed possible and in progress. But the main version on the Google Play Store will almost certainly be no longer open-source.
If the next version is close-sourced, that means that it won't be published in the repository that F-Droid follows to build their version. Yeah I think you're safe.
Unless you use the Play Store version, in which case the tainted new versions will be coming any time soon.
Note to self, see if I can self-host Piped
In my particular case: because I still need to sync my subscriptions and playlists, as well as the support for adding comments.
Nightly user here, does this mean I no longer need to do the song and dance of manually adding my addons list to the browser anymore? Guess I can finally switch to stable!
See, this is one of the reasons why I haven't listened to music in almost a decade. Paying fairly to artists is provably unaffordable for the average joe, unless a shady workaround like the streaming service subscription exists (and even then, that barely fills the belly of the artists that dedicate exclusively to art).
Google's Polymer library working better on the Chromium engine has been known for years, and Mozilla has been doing its best to keep up with Google's wrenches in the engine, this seven-year-old bug being one of many examples: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1367205
Amazon still has its own app store open - mostly because it's the one Microsoft used as the base for their Android compatibility layer. I expect this ruling to give Amazon a breath of fresh air as "the alternative app store".