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

brie@beehaw.org to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org – 143 points –

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
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Were the other simple apps forked as well, or just Gallery?

Everything was forked and should eventually end up on F-Droid, but most things haven't had a release yet. My understanding is that they're hoping to do everything right immediately, including having proper new branding and all the shared functionality from Simple Thank You.

The F-Droid versions of SMT apps are perfectly safe and shouldn't be going anywhere. (But if you have Google Play versions, I wouldn't trust those anymore, those are owned by ZipoApps now.)

Cool, thanks for the info! All of mine are f-droid and figured they'd be okay for now. Definitely looking to switch though but I'm lazy and prefer to do things through f-droid lol

They were, no new releases yet though except calendar