This. Freedom is part of the quality of a program.

You love to see it.

It has it as a setting. It should be default though

Yeah I know that’s allowed under the GPL, but you mentioned them “choosing to keep a FOSS version”, which if they didn’t do that would mean relicensing. It’s still FOSS here.

Obviously these phones aren’t as good as megacorp-backed Androids yet, they’re much newer and the software is being developed by the community for fucks sake. And the manufacturers haven’t had so many design revisions to recognise and fix all the issues.

They’re development/early adopter devices. And the killswitches aren’t pointless, because while you can enable airplane mode, that’s a software mechanism which can be maliciously changed, either by the manufacturer or an attacker. A kill switch will 100% cut you off.

Aren’t there outside contributors? How can they relicense it without their permission?

Very nice!

To be fair, if the free software “hardliners” like the FSF soften their stance, then that “hardline” just shifts. If nobody maintains that stance the strongest libre software principles will become weaker, if that makes sense.

The FSF is very useful for preventing that, even if they’re not quite as big as softer movements like “Open Source”

So you’re suggesting they remove or tag 99% of projects from the directory because you don’t like where they put their source code? Seriously?

If you really don’t like it, use the git command line to access it… It’s just the server where the code is hosted…

And no, you don’t need an access token to clone a repo.

Yes these sites are bad, no it doesn’t warrant tarring the projects hosted on them.