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Re:Tusky has been removed from the Play Store by arsome on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @10:23AM (#26491640)
Just don't call it free software.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

"The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0)."

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Re:Tusky has been removed from the Play Store by robrtsql on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @10:36AM (#26491833)
Which Mastodon client doesn't respect this freedom? Tusky is GPL v3 (https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/blob/develop/LICENSE.txt). If you disagree with Tusky's choice to prevent accessing gab, you're free to fork it.
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Re:Tusky has been removed from the Play Store by prvc on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @10:35AM (#26491816)
Interesting point. Would like to hear what someone like RMS would say about this case.
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Re:Tusky has been removed from the Play Store by josephcsible on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @12:56PM (#26493803)
He doesn't care what restrictions are in a program's source code, as long as you're both legally allowed and technically able to create and use a modified version of the program without them.
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Re:Tusky has been removed from the Play Store by almaember on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:16PM (#26548073)
But I think he did say that such restrictions are bad and people should remove it
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Re:Tusky has been removed from the Play Store by josephcsible on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @12:57PM (#26493814)
It's still free software. It only wouldn't be if the license said you weren't allowed to remove the restrictions, or if it didn't come with the source code needed for you to do so.
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