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Google's dev registration plan will end the F-Droid project (www.theregister.com)
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[-] artyom@piefed.social 27 points 6 days ago

The F-Droid project cannot require that developers register their apps through Google, but at the same time, we cannot “take over” the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications.

https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2025
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