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by vanous 1097 days ago
Fdroid says that not all of the code is free... What are the closed portions, anyone knows?

Edit: this seems to be due to (removed for fdroid) google integration. Feels strange... Author removes a Google library for fdroid release but is still being punished be the antifeature.
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jonas-w 1097 days ago
https://github.com/massivemadness/Squircle-CE/issues/182

It contains a google library, but can't find what exact library they are referring to, as the link they've provided is dead.

EDIT: Found it in an old commit from around that time the comment was made https://github.com/massivemadness/Squircle-CE/blob/1818d3904...

A googleplay "appupdate" library, I don't have knowledge about App development, but I don't see how this library is needed in the fdroid version?

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lostmsu 1097 days ago
It seems to not be needed or used. My take from the thread is that F-Droid complains about the library reference present in the source code at all. It does not know the library is not linked in the F-Droid build.
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mananaysiempre 1097 days ago
AFAIU if a nonfree library can’t be disabled or patched out, the app doesn’t get to be published on F-Droid at all. The antifeature description[1] just says

> In our experience, where the upstream developer includes Non-Free libraries, sooner or later they will include more Non-Free libraries, or other Anti-Features. Frequently they become impossible to maintain/update in F-Droid.

[1] https://f-droid.org/docs/Anti-Features/#UpstreamNonFree

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