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antennapod fork? (self.opensource)

submitted 4 months ago by merde to c/[email protected]

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FocusPodcast looks and feels very much like an AntennaPod fork but there's no mention of it anywhere (?)

https://f-droid.org/packages/allen.town.focus.podcast/ or https://github.com/allentown521/FocusPodcast

is it written from scratch?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There are some interesting similarities in the code and the project structure. Example:

This comment suggests it is a fork: https://github.com/allentown521/FocusPodcast/issues/1#issuecomment-2208289756

But otherwise i can't find it written explicitly anywhere.

[–] merde 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

does "open source" mean that you can fork without giving credit?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

No, you still need to follow the original license in most cases.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

No, GPL in particular demands the copyright notices are preserved.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Depends on the license

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

I know nothing about it but I'd just use antennapod as they are obviously the ones who will fix anything first.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://github.com/allentown521/FocusPodcast/issues/1#issuecomment-2208289756

Commenter says it's a fork of antennapod like podcini is. I've tried podcini but wasn't fond of the interface changes and went back to antennapod. Wish the github page would list what makes focus different from antennapod.

[–] merde 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i was trying podcini too for those podcasts that block antennapod➜orbot connections. podcini's glitches and the skip forward button that's lacking from the lock screen notification made me search some other alternative

focus works better than podcini but antenna is still the best

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

From what I can see on the F-Droid description, Focus connects to iTunes, presumably in addition to the same places Antenna does, for podcast search indexing

[–] merde 1 points 4 months ago

yes, iTunes was the first connection it tried that was blocked by netGuard

in antennapod you choose which service to use for podcast indexing from the "add podcast" drawer, focus uses iTunes by default (that can be modified in settings to fyyd or podcast index)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm out of the loop, what happened to antennapod?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nothing, some people just dislike the slow pace of its development or some design decisions and fork it (and in the process remove or break less used functionality, like Podcini can't read any feeds on my old Android 7 phone).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Oh okay

[–] merde 4 points 4 months ago

it's fine