F-Droid inclusion

[jugendhacker]

I'm currently looking into bringing this app into the FOSS appstore called F-Droid.

Currently I see two things that would make packaging more easy if they would get changed:

1. versions are not tagged, so it's not really clear based on what commit each version is build. For example I see you bumped version in 2b879bb, but was 3.4.1 build based on this commit?
2. it would be cool if you could provide metadata about the app based on fastlane structure. This would make it way easier from the F-Droid side because you control the metadata and changing the metadata will not require work on the F-Droid side.

[jcgruenhage]

It looks like this app is not open source or free software, just source available at best. As you can see in the README, they state that their license is:

Copyright MOVACT UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

This means that unless this changes, this app is not suitable for inclusion in F-Droid, whether these two other annoyances get fixed or not.

That being said: I'd love to see this app licensed in a way that permits distribution in F-Droid, instead of it being defacto propietary software.

[mxmtsk]

Thanks for the ticket and your very valid points. We'll tag upcoming versions better.

But, as @jcgruenhage already said, right now the source code is published but not open source. This was done only a few weeks ago when we launched for the Bundestagswahl in an effort to make the app more transparent and trustworthy.
Our long term goal however is to make the source code available under an open source license but we are not quite there yet with code preparations and some legal questions. Since I'm currently the only developer on this project progress is also quite slow at the moment.

I will leave this ticket open for now.

[jcgruenhage]

Our long term goal however is to make the source code available under an open source license

That's great to hear! 🎉

[Ein-Tim]

Did anything change here over the course of the last 2 1/2 years?