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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

msn.com

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[–] inari@piefed.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago* (7 children)

FUTO

Sadly, FUTO is under a proprietary license.

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[–] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

True, but I'd still rather people use FUTO keyboard instead of gboard.

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[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It's not a proprietary license, it's on the very permissive end of source available

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[–] klu9@piefed.social 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Licence used by FUTO Android Keyboard: FUTO Source First 1.1:

https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard?tab=License-1-ov-file

IsItReallyFOSS verdict: "Nope!"

https://isitreallyfoss.com/projects/futo-keyboard/

I looked into this a few days ago re video app Grayjay, a FUTO project under version 1.3 of the FUTO Source First licence.

https://piefed.social/post/2497692#comment_13341153

More on FUTO's behaviour re free software/open source:

https://drewdevault.com/blog/Whats-up-with-FUTO/

@non_burglar@lemmy.world @yeahigotskills2@lemmy.ml

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[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

OK, I'll concede the futo source first license. Also, immich is indeed under AGPL 3.

Let's leave that drew devault rambling blog in the conspiracy bucket, it's been discussed to death here.

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[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 weeks ago

...I know what the license says, I read it. Hence why I said it's source available.

Source available ≠ open source

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[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

FUTO is a lot of things, some of them not great, but its products are all under AGPL 3.0 license.

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[–] Yeahigotskills2@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Literately just installed it. Decent!

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[–] chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Posted on MSN, lol.

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[–] QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

*re-posted. MSN is just an aggregator.

Here's a link to the original:
https://www.androidpolice.com/replaced-chrome-google-keep-gmail-gboard-with-their-open-source-alternatives/

~~https://www.androidpolice.com/replaced-google-photos-drive-gemini-with-free-open-source-alternatives-now-i-can-not-go-back/~~

Edit: updated with the correct link

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[–] Anon518@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

That's a different article. It doesn't cover Keep and Gboard.

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[–] QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for calling this out. That author has a ton of articles that are all very similar to one another. I updated the link to match the correct article from last week.

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[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago

My thought exactly.

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[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago

Their replacement for gboard is another proprietary app. A real FOSS alternative that seems popular is Heliboard, but it requires a proprietary blob for swipe typing (although apparently they are working on replacing that with a free alternative). I'm fond of Unexpected Keyboard.

[–] bad1080@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

don't forget to switch to a de-googled rom too, like crDroid or LineageOS

[–] futurp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Well done.