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Re:A group of open source Android apps without ads or unnece... by lupire on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @01:19PM (#31494914)
What do you imagine Open Source means?

None of the inventors or well-known stewards of Open Source ideas share your belief.

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Re:A group of open source Android apps without ads or unnece... by teknopaul on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @01:52PM (#31495297)
Open source licenses are licenses that comply with the Open Source Definition — in brief, they allow software to be freely used, modified, and shared.

https://opensource.org/licenses

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Re:A group of open source Android apps without ads or unnece... by detaro on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @02:27PM (#31495788)
And how do these apps not allow that?
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Re:A group of open source Android apps without ads or unnece... by teknopaul on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @01:53PM (#31495319)
Unnecessary restrictions on use such as changing the colour of the gui, is not within the general goals of Open source software.
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Re:A group of open source Android apps without ads or unnece... by ffpip on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @03:07PM (#31496250)
You can free to change the color of the GUI in the code and build it yourself. Change the values here to your liking - https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Commons/blob/mas... .
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