Seems like futo.org is developing a fully offline keyboard. It is currently in a pre-alpha state and there are many bugs and missing features. It looks promising, glide/swipe typing is there by default, unlike HeliBoard where you have to import a proprietary library. They are also working on an inte…

[image] foolishgrunt: Futo’s statement on the topic may also be enlightening: FUTO Statement on Open Source smh… becoming an example of, “you become what you hate”.

Not sure what you’re trying to say.

They seem to be forgetting that when people say “open source” they usually mean “Free/libre open source software”. Their license may be allow the source to be open, but it is in no way libre.

Except it is so long as you aren’t making a profit from it’s use. Remember they are a company and while the idea of FOSS is great, this is the real world and people need money to survive. Writing Open Source code is great for the people who use that code but most programmers can’t afford to live whi…

What FUTO didn’t (doesn’t?) understand is that open source licenses exist to protect the user’s rights, not the developer’s. Creating their own license to protect their own rights is perfectly fine, they just can’t be calling it “open source” anymore once the terms infringe on the user’s rights (es…

I wonder if one could add a dead man’s switch to a license like this to try and remedy this. For instance: If the license is changed in the future, all previous iterations of the source code become one of the standard Open Source licenses. If the source becomes unmaintained for X amount of time, t…

That still doesn’t allow for the development of forks while FUTO continues to develop their version.

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[image] exaCORE: That still doesn’t allow for the development of forks while FUTO continues to develop their version. The current license allows a fork as long as it isn’t commercial re-distribution(meaning, our payment links are kept in & it isn’t being “sold” by the forker). FUTO is workin…

[image] HushedWave: I wonder if one could add a dead man’s switch to a license like this to try and remedy this. For instance: If the license is changed in the future, all previous iterations of the source code become one of the standard Open Source licenses. If the source becomes unmaintained…

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