King to Open Source@lemmy.ml · edit-21 year agoHow can I report apps that falsely claim to be open source?message-squaremessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up1156arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1150arrow-down1message-squareHow can I report apps that falsely claim to be open source?King to Open Source@lemmy.ml · edit-21 year agomessage-square34linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareaion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up30arrow-down1·1 year agoThis first one has a QR code linking to its source: https://github.com/niilopoutanen/rss-feed Unless I missed it, the second doesn’t claim to be open source. In any case this appears to be its source: https://github.com/maco2ou/finefeed
minus-squareKingOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down2·1 year agoThe first link is for read me file with no source code avaliable. The second link is a code last updated is 2 years back, the app is still updated in the app store with no source code. Also inside the app it says that it’s GPL , with different link.
minus-squareaion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up28·1 year agoThe code for the first is there, its just on other branches, they seem to have a very unusual way of using git.
minus-squareKingOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoThat is pretty unusual, I removed it from the post to reflect this.
minus-squarerecursive_recursion [they/them]@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-21 year agohttps://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.en.html the page details what one can do if they find license violations although based on other comments in this thread it seems that the source code is available in a somewhat odd manner
minus-squareEdyBolos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoFor the first one, you need to change the branch, the source code is there, on either main or develop.
This first one has a QR code linking to its source: https://github.com/niilopoutanen/rss-feed
Unless I missed it, the second doesn’t claim to be open source. In any case this appears to be its source: https://github.com/maco2ou/finefeed
The first link is for read me file with no source code avaliable.
The second link is a code last updated is 2 years back, the app is still updated in the app store with no source code.
Also inside the app it says that it’s GPL , with different link.
The code for the first is there, its just on other branches, they seem to have a very unusual way of using git.
That is pretty unusual, I removed it from the post to reflect this.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.en.html
the page details what one can do if they find license violations
although based on other comments in this thread it seems that the source code is available in a somewhat odd manner
For the first one, you need to change the branch, the source code is there, on either main or develop.