chaospatternsOct 20, 2024

Syncthing Android app discontinued

https://lemmy.world/post/21070831

Syncthing Android app discontinued - Lemmy.World

Announcement by the creator: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002 [https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002] > Unfortunately I don’t have good news on the state of the android app: I am retiring it. The last release on Github and F-Droid will happen with the December 2024 Syncthing version. > Reason is a combination of Google making Play publishing something between hard and impossible and no active maintenance. The app saw no significant development for a long time and without Play releases I do no longer see enough benefit and/or have enough motivation to keep up the ongoing maintenance an app requires even without doing much, if any, changes. > Thanks a lot to everyone who ever contributed to this app!

Show threadcmgvd3lwOct 21, 2024
Sad day indeed, bitwarden going shady and this.
Show threadcalmluck9349Oct 21, 2024
What did bitwarden do??
Show threadAtemuOct 21, 2024
lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1268531
Bitwarden Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software - NDLUG

> Pull request #10974 introduces the @bitwarden/sdk-internal dependency which is needed to build the desktop client. The dependency contains a licence statement which contains the following clause: >> You may not use this SDK to develop applications for use with software other than Bitwarden (including non-compatible implementations of Bitwarden) or to develop another SDK. > This violates freedom 0. > It is not possible to build desktop-v2024.10.0 (or, likely, current master) without removing this dependency.

Show threadmajesticOct 21, 2024
I think it was made by mistake. They will more likely remove that dependency
Show thread486Oct 21, 2024
Perhaps the hard dependency was a mistake, but not them moving more and more code to their proprietary library. It appears that their intent is to make the client mostly a wrapper around their proprietary library, so they can still claim to have an open source GPLv3 piece of software.
Show threadnadir
Instead of open core I’ll call this popular approach “open skin”.
Oct 21, 2024 at 11:53amWeb