Posted on MSN, lol.
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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.
An MSN aggregation link for a article on replacing Google? Here's the direct Android Police link:
FUTO
Sadly, FUTO is under a proprietary license.
True, but I'd still rather people use FUTO keyboard instead of gboard.
It's not a proprietary license, it's on the very permissive end of source available
Licence used by FUTO Android Keyboard: FUTO Source First 1.1:
IsItReallyFOSS verdict: "Nope!"
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.
More on FUTO's behaviour re free software/open source:
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.
...I know what the license says, I read it. Hence why I said it's source available.
Source available ≠ open source
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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