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Is there any proprietary Android app for which you wish there would be an open-source alternative? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically, what the title says. Do you use any app, that is proprietary, but either has no OSS alternatives or they're all not good enough? If there is an alternative, what keeps you from switching?

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

Bitwarden. Most people think that their application is open source, but more and more of their code has shifted from the GPL/AGPL licensed code to code in their SDK, which is under a proprietary license. This led to their new Android app being disqualified from being hosted in F-Droid repos.

Keyguard was supposed to be an open source Bitwarden client, but the dev chose to use a custom proprietary license, so that is source available as well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They are remaking all apps as native apps so maybe this problem gets addressed too.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Their new, native android app is also using more and more of their proprietary SDK. It's not something they're trying to fix.

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