Simple Mobile Tools is being sold to a for-profit firm ZipoApps

Gogo Sempai@programming.dev to Android@lemmy.world – 585 points –

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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.

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Looks like the community is already forking the project. It would be cool if fdroid has a clean transition to the fork.

That would be a terrible precedent...

Oh we'll just "cleanly" (silently) update to a different fork by a different dev.

Thats exactly what we are trying to avoid google play "cleanly" updating our apps to the new, spyware apps

Agreed

F-Droid should halt updates if app stops being FOSS (which F-Droid is all about) and then introduce the most popular fork as a standalone app.