Our Apps and Open Source — Chimbori
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Some components of our apps are open-source, but the main apps are not. This is to protect you and us from unscrupulous counterfeiters who add malware and ads to open-source apps.

I am not following these claims carefully, but I have seen tons of copies of Lawnchair in the Playstore.

Another recent event that comes to my mind is the Simple apps, which AFAIK they always were open source? But that didn’t matter until it got sold and then Fossify was the non shit version of it (the positive side of open source).

  • h3ndrik@feddit.de
    171·
    5 months ago

    It’s the same argument FUTO and Louis Rossman have to make their apps source-available. If you ask me, it’s a cheap excuse. They could as well enforce their trademark or have Google remove it.

    This way it’s just another closed source app that doesn’t grant the users any additional freedoms.