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Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project (www.theregister.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/foss@beehaw.org

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[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They said they can't do that in the article:

but at the same time, we cannot 'take over' the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They would need to modify the ID then. ~~OSMand, e.g. has different IDs in PlayStore and F-Droid (+ vs. ~ suffix).~~

Edit: It's the names that are different, the IDs are the same.