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Immigrant to the fediverse. Fan of free and open source software.
@flesh Organic Maps (@organicmaps) is the obvious recommendation. Based on @openstreetmap, available on @fdroidorg, and has an easy-to-use interface.
@vitonsky AI is a newer field and there is not yet consensus on whether training data and training code are required to be open source for an AI model to be open source. On the other hand, for all other software, the term "open source software" has an established definition that you apparently don't like, but most people continue to use. That definition ensures that users have the right to redistribute open source software and use it commercially.
@vitonsky The definition of a term is based on how others use it. Most people use the term "open source software" to refer to software that is licensed in a way that allows redistribution and commercial use, among other freedoms, and that is therefore what the term means. If you want to change the definition to something else, you have to get other people to use it the same way. So far, everyone who responded to your question disagrees with you, so I don't see your definition taking off.
@rodentapp @switchingsoftware @dzm @jezebelkat There's nothing wrong with releasing a freeware app, but Rodent would obtain much more goodwill if its source code were published under a free and open source license. Many Mastodon users are here because this social network is FOSS, and prefer using a Mastodon client that is also FOSS. Also, there are ways to implement app analytics that are much less privacy-intrusive than Google/Firebase Analytics.
@vitonsky The other person (jcubic) is right. Publishing source code is required, but not sufficient, for software to be open source. If a piece of software has published source code but does not allow redistribution or commercial use, that software is source-available but not open source.
@qgustavor I'm also not comfortable with Google making it difficult to use Android without relying on privacy-invasive proprietary software.
The Linux phone ecosystem is advancing at a healthy pace, with @furilabs's FuriOS being the best implementation I've seen so far. It uses Waydroid for Android compatibility.
iOS is proprietary, extremely restrictive, and not for me. If you dislike how Google makes it hard to use wake words with Dicio, you'll hate how Apple makes it completely impossible.
@qgustavor Dicio is the FOSS digital assistant app for Android that you're looking for. It uses Vosk for voice recognition and added wake word support last year. Dicio's skills include setting a timer, but not yet controlling Bluetooth or the flashlight.
https://github.com/Stypox/dicio-android
Android does let you change the default digital assistant app in the system settings:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-change-your-default-apps-on-android-12/
@itsfoss While it's good that the article didn't mischaracterize LLaMA as open source, all of the licenses with restrictions on usage (including the "Falcon-180B TII License" and "RAIL License v1.0", and "Open RAIL-M v1") are not open source because they conflict with the Open Source Definition:
Falcon 180B, Bloom, and StarCoder are not open source for the same reasons LLaMA is not open source. They are only source-available.
It does look like Proton has gone back on its promise to make its Android app for Proton Mail open source.
@protonprivacy Looking forward to your response.
@itsfoss Llama is source-available but not #opensource. Open source software can be used for any purpose, while Meta's license for Llama comes with a restrictive "acceptable use policy": https://ai.meta.com/llama/use-policy
As a publication focusing on #FOSS, could you please use the correct terminology in your articles?