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Alas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.ml to F-Droid@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 days ago

Google's dev registration plan will end the F-Droid project

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Google's dev registration plan will end the F-Droid project

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Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project
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    The F-Droid project cannot require that developers register their apps through Google, 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.

    https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

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