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You can download it directly from Github for free. $3.49 for what appears to be a solid app is not unreasonable.
Open source has never meant "free". It's commonly associated because you can build it yourself for free, but you also have the option to buy a prebuilt package directly from the dev.
You're speaking of "source available". There is absolutely a difference between source available and open source. In this case, no license is mentioned on the github at all. Combined with the Google play price and I'm pretty damn sure this isn't actually open source.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software
That's not what that means. Open source/source available only pertains to how the source code is published, it has nothing to do with how the app itself is distrubuted/sold.
Open source distributions are usually free, but don't have to be.
Open source code may be copied in part or in full, source available generally may not.
Similarly, just because an app is closed source doesn't mean it can't be free.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney
There are open source licences that say you can't charge money for any project which use said licenced code, but that's not the case with the (A)GPL licence used here.
Yes, exactly. OP has given no license for his app source code, despite posting it on github. Open source is a gift to public; saying that anyone is open to use and redistribute it however they want.
OP has not given that permission, so the label of 'open source' is premature, and possibly misleading.
Putting the license on the github repo, by definition, is licensing the code as such. Specifically, OP is using AGPL 3.0.
What exactly are you trying to achieve? What is your actual argument?