![]() ![]() In January 2016 Hans-Christoph Steiner, a developer for Calyx Institute, Debian, F-Droid, and Guardian Project, said F-Droid was focusing on issues like security, building with Debian, reproducible builds, software requiring trust of as few people as possible, transparency, user privacy, non-internet distribution of apps, block avoidance, and media distribution. In 2014 F-Droid was chosen as part of the GNU Project's GNU a Day initiative during their 30th anniversary to encourage more use of free software. In 2012, Free Software Foundation Europe featured F-Droid in their Free Your Android! campaign to raise awareness of the privacy and security risks of proprietary software. Guardian Project, a suite of free and secure Android applications, started running their own F-Droid repository in early 2012. In June 2022, Replicant announced they had removed F-Droid. In 2016, the Replicant project determined F-Droid did not comply with GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines, and asked for assistance correcting it, but progress stalled. Replicant, a fully free software Android operating system, previously used F-Droid as its default and recommended app store. According to Daniel Marti, Former F-Droid Developer, in 2013, removal of AdAway from the Google Play Store caused a spike in searches and downloads of F-Droid, and he estimated there were 30 to 40 thousand users. In 2015 it transitioned to proprietary licensed GitLab when Gitorious was acquired by GitLab. ![]() įrom 2010 to 2015 F-Droid used AGPL licensed Gitorious repository system for development. In a 2014 interview for Free Software Foundation, Gultnieks said he was inspired to launch F-Droid because of "lock-down, lock-in and general nefarious behavior from software" on phones. As of 2021, F-Droid Limited was no longer used for donations, and was being shut down, according to spokesman Hans-Cristoph Steiner. The project was initially run by the English nonprofit F-Droid Limited. The client was forked from Aptoide's source code. ![]() Development of F-Droid data over time from 2010 through 2018 į-Droid was founded by Ciaran Gultnieks in 2010. ![]()
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