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F-Droid warns Google’s sideloading rules will kill the project & several open-source apps (alternativeto.net)

submitted 4 months ago by Sunshine@piefed.social to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca

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[-] MxRemy@piefed.social 16 points 4 months ago

Oh no... Will this affect AOSP forks like GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, LineageOS, etc? If it doesn't, could the alternative app stores just service those instead?

[-] chirospasm@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It may not impact GrapheneOS directly.

As well, the GrapheneOS team is already automatically removing the Play Store source stamp checks from installed apps, so that they don't actually have to remove any integrity check -- the thing Google is moving toward. It's a good start.

EDIT: the top comment at the bottom of the page this post links to does a great job explaining why it likely won't be an issue.

[-] passenger@sopuli.xyz 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes, but I believe many developers will just quit so there will be less maintained projects in general.

Their userbase will shrink drastically if they won't certify themselves, or whatever the XXX google wants them to do

[-] MxRemy@piefed.social 4 points 4 months ago

Oof yeah, that makes sense... 😭

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I can't say for sure but someone this morning wrote that it would affect those other oses. But yeah I don't really understand it enough myself to say with certainty