Simple Mobile apps have been very popular among FOSS enthusiasts. I’ve personally been using the Gallery, Contacts and the Phone app since a few years now. It’s a shame that it has come to this, will be on the lookout for their forks.
When I migrated to GrapheneOS I chose to use all the system’s native applications (AOSP) for obvious reasons but I admit that this news makes me very worried, one less dev we will have on our side.
Thankfully I only have them via Obtainium. Flip the “track only” option to on and wait and see. Like someone else said, I’m hopeful there’ll be forks for these soon enough. I’m off to fork the repos for myself anyway, just in case.
Edit: for those that are self-hosting some form of git, is would be great if more people did this, for archival purposes. I’ve simply left the public fork of all 19 repos in my Github account, but have mirrored those to my private Forgejo instance.
At any point I can sync the GH forks then mirror those down to my local instance. Until the original repos get dismantled, of course.
All the code is GPLv3 so it will remain FOSS. There’s no need to immediately switch to other apps. You can optionally fork then build the apps for yourself.
I was talking about immediately switching. There is enough time to build the apps from source for yourself before they upload their shittified version.
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.
Why do you say that? Unless they completely rewrite the app from scratch it is not even possible to have a closed-source version of the app. That’s what the GPLv3 does.
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?
Anyone used Etar calendar app? I use Simple Calendar for its ability to export everything to one ICS file. I see Etar can use ICS, but is it a full calendar import/export? Or one event at a time? Related question, is there anything better?
Etar lacks features compared to SMT Calendar - mostly for me, the ability to assign different notification / sounds, and of course the ability to export the entire calender as ICS.
Re your question: no. If you try to import an ICS calendar generated by SMT Calendar, Etar only imports the oldest event.
Etar isn’t as good as SMT Calendar but it has suddenly become very attractive. I’ve uninstalled SMT Calendar, and CalyxOS comes with Etar preinstalled. So now I rock Etar. Not super happy, but it’s better than nothing. The next step for me is to install a CalDAV server on my home server. That way I’ll never get caught unable to import my calendar into a new app. And I’ll live with a single notification sound for all my events / appointments.
Oh. I didn’t realize that Etar was the default in CalyxOS. That’s disappointing, as I don’t like the default CalyxOS calendar. I may stick with SMT Cal and just not update, and wait for someone to fork. I thought about forking it myself, but I’m not a developer, so won’t be able to maintain it :/
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When I migrated to GrapheneOS I chose to use all the system’s native applications (AOSP) for obvious reasons but I admit that this news makes me very worried, one less dev we will have on our side.
Thankfully I only have them via Obtainium. Flip the “track only” option to on and wait and see. Like someone else said, I’m hopeful there’ll be forks for these soon enough. I’m off to fork the repos for myself anyway, just in case.
Edit: for those that are self-hosting some form of git, is would be great if more people did this, for archival purposes. I’ve simply left the public fork of all 19 repos in my Github account, but have mirrored those to my private Forgejo instance.
At any point I can sync the GH forks then mirror those down to my local instance. Until the original repos get dismantled, of course.
Damn, I recently donated to them, and this is how it turned out.
Terrible to see.
Now that’d feel like paying for adware :(
Time to download all those apks and keep them mirrored elsewhere, I fear for their future now
Noooooo! I love their gallery app. Guess it’s time to turn off auto-update on it.
Thank you for sharing this!
NOOOOO
Finally, Kissinger is dead — but for the karmic balance, even SMT gets enshittified.
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All the code is GPLv3 so it will remain FOSS. There’s no need to immediately switch to other apps. You can optionally fork then build the apps for yourself.
Unless you use the Play Store version, in which case the tainted new versions will be coming any time soon.
I was talking about immediately switching. There is enough time to build the apps from source for yourself before they upload their shittified version.
I got it from fdroid. Am I safe?
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.
AFAIK the code is all GPLv3 so they won’t be able to close-source it.
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.
Why do you say that? Unless they completely rewrite the app from scratch it is not even possible to have a closed-source version of the app. That’s what the GPLv3 does.
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?
Sigh.
Anyone used Etar calendar app? I use Simple Calendar for its ability to export everything to one ICS file. I see Etar can use ICS, but is it a full calendar import/export? Or one event at a time? Related question, is there anything better?
Etar lacks features compared to SMT Calendar - mostly for me, the ability to assign different notification / sounds, and of course the ability to export the entire calender as ICS.
Re your question: no. If you try to import an ICS calendar generated by SMT Calendar, Etar only imports the oldest event.
Etar isn’t as good as SMT Calendar but it has suddenly become very attractive. I’ve uninstalled SMT Calendar, and CalyxOS comes with Etar preinstalled. So now I rock Etar. Not super happy, but it’s better than nothing. The next step for me is to install a CalDAV server on my home server. That way I’ll never get caught unable to import my calendar into a new app. And I’ll live with a single notification sound for all my events / appointments.
Oh. I didn’t realize that Etar was the default in CalyxOS. That’s disappointing, as I don’t like the default CalyxOS calendar. I may stick with SMT Cal and just not update, and wait for someone to fork. I thought about forking it myself, but I’m not a developer, so won’t be able to maintain it :/
@01189998819991197253 @gogosempai
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Install Etar, import the ICS file
and see what happens!
But if it tastes like shite and rotten fish, and someone has already tried and can warn me, why not learn from them lol
@01189998819991197253 😂
😂 hahaha
THANK YOU for this post, just replaced my dialer, contacts, gallery, and clock.
Looks like one of the maintainers/contributors has already setup a fork!
https://github.com/FossifyX
Thank fuck.
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