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brie ( brie@beehaw.org )  to Free and Open Source SoftwareEnglish · 3 years ago

Fossify Gallery is now on F-Droid, and Simple Gallery got removed due to a proprietary dependency

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Fossify Gallery is now on F-Droid, and Simple Gallery got removed due to a proprietary dependency

brie ( brie@beehaw.org )  to Free and Open Source SoftwareEnglish · 3 years ago
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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
  • BearOfaTime ( BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ) 
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    3 years ago

    “or get forked anyway”

    I see what you did there…

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