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SandwichesAreNice lemmy.world SandwichesAreNice@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-06-01
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Link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/software/i-replaced-chrome-google-keep-gmail-and-gboard-with-open-source-apps-i-m-not-going-back/ar-AA2e6PDg
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inari piefed.zip inari@piefed.zip
Joined: 2026-02-07
#2 · (edited) Quote Reply

FUTO

Sadly, FUTO is under a proprietary license.
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Nednarb44 lemmy.world Nednarb44@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-19
#3 · Quote Reply
inari wrote:
FUTO Sadly, FUTO is under a proprietary license.

True, but I'd still rather people use FUTO keyboard instead of gboard.
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non_burglar lemmy.world non_burglar@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
#4 · Quote Reply
inari wrote:
FUTO Sadly, FUTO is under a proprietary license.

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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Blisterexe lemmy.zip Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-11-06
#5 · Quote Reply
inari wrote:
FUTO Sadly, FUTO is under a proprietary license.

It's not a proprietary license, it's on the very permissive end of source available
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Skullgrid lemmy.world Skullgrid@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-29
#6 · Quote Reply

msn.com

🤔
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Yeahigotskills2 lemmy.ml Yeahigotskills2@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-09-10
#7 · Quote Reply
inari wrote:
FUTO Sadly, FUTO is under a proprietary license.

Literately just installed it. Decent!
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klu9 piefed.social klu9@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-04
#8 · Quote Reply
Blisterexe wrote:
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:

@non_burglar@lemmy.world @yeahigotskills2@lemmy.ml
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spaghettiwestern sh.itjust.works spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-15
#9 · Quote Reply

An MSN aggregation link for a article on replacing Google? Here's the direct Android Police link:

https://www.androidpolice.com/replaced-google-photos-drive-gemini-with-free-open-source-alternatives-now-i-can-not-go-back/
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non_burglar lemmy.world non_burglar@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
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klu9 wrote:
Licence used by FUTO Android Keyboard: FUTO Source First 1.1: https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard?tab=License-1-ov-file IsItReallyFOSS verdict: "Nope!" https://isitreallyfoss.com/projects/futo-keyboard/ 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. https://piefed.social/post/2497692#comment_13341153 More on FU...

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.
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Blisterexe lemmy.zip Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-11-06
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klu9 wrote:
Licence used by FUTO Android Keyboard: FUTO Source First 1.1: https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard?tab=License-1-ov-file IsItReallyFOSS verdict: "Nope!" https://isitreallyfoss.com/projects/futo-keyboard/ 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. https://piefed.social/post/2497692#comment_13341153 More on FU...

...I know what the license says, I read it. Hence why I said it's source available.

Source available ≠ open source
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