Canta | Uninstall any Bloatware, System App without Root just by using Shizuku

TooMuchVanced@lemmy.world to Android@lemmy.world – 49 points –
lemmy.world

How to:

Features:

  • no bricking - if you remove essential app you will need to do factory reset, but that's it!
  • auto detect previously uninstalled apps if you've already removed any using adb

Screenshots:

https://i.imgur.com/3uuMvVJ.png

https://i.imgur.com/ScByjdz.png

https://i.imgur.com/fAwxCRn.png

9

You are viewing a single comment

From their readme:

For the project as a whole, it is not free. You are FORBIDDEN to distribute the apk compiled by you (including modified, e.g., rename app name "Shizuku" to something else) to any store (IBNLT Google Play Store, F-Droid, Amazon Appstore etc.).

I don't get it?

What part of "don't steal out shit" is hard to understand?

Redistributing modifications or otherwise modifying, improving and sharing software isn't stealing...

Their "exception" basically defeats the point of the free license it uses (Apache2.0). It's more source-available than libre or open source, thinly veiled by the Apache license at the top of the project. I find it interesting that they chose a free license to base it on in the first place if they then go on to invalidate a good chunk of it's user protections.

If they really don't want people to pass off other work as theirs, they could have just used the 4-clause BSD license, with it's advertising clause, or Apache 1.0, also with an advertising clause (not great for libre licenses, but would fit and wouldn't be quite so bad as what they've done).