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Shattered Pixel Dungeon is FOSS? I've never seen a paid FOSS app
Shattered is a fork. The original Pixel Dungeon has a permissive license and allows selling modifications with source available
I've seen some apps free on F-droid and paid in Play Store. Best of both worlds!
Here's an example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.bitfire.davdroid
you can download it from github for free - missing the PC improvements like more quickslots and a larger inventory screen that can stay open while dungeoneering, but it's the full game: https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon/releases
specifically those improvements are for the paid steam release.
I see, thanks for clearing that up!
Yeah, the steam release is more of a "support the dev for some goodies" type of thing :-) Dwarf fortress on steam is also paid