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Sonny

@verdre published his work about reverse engineering Android app support in Sailfish OS and bringing it to GNOME/Linux mobile. :android: :gnome: :linux: 📱

Great read

blogs.gnome.org/jdressler/2023

#Linux#LinuxMobile#mobileLinux
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Carl Schwan :kde:

@sonny @verdre Aliendalvik is the primarily source of income for Jola (selling licenses for custom embedded usages), so it's quite unlikely they will open source it any time soon. Selling licenses for users of other Linux mobile projects might be a bit more realistic. 😔

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Tobias Bernard

@carlschwan @sonny @verdre Surely they could find some kind of copyleft license setup that allows it to be used by community projects while keeping their commercial licensing business alive, no?

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Carl Schwan :kde:

@tbernard @sonny @verdre Jola has always been overprotecting of their ip. They choose to keep using Qt 5.6 because 5.7 switched from lgpl2 to lgpl3.

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Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast

@sonny @verdre amazing! While there are not as many Sailfish OS apps many of them are quite nice and it would be great for the linux mobile phone community to have access to as many apps as possible and remove the OS fragmentation- would it be easier or harder to get these apps to run in Arch or other mobile linux distributions? As far as i know there is no effort to port SFOS apps over..

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Jonas

@goatwildernesscollective @sonny pretty sure that large parts of the Sailfish OS ui code are proprietary. I don’t know if that’s also the case for the widget libraries that apps are using… if those are open source, it should be easy to run sailfish apps on other distros, it’d be mainly a matter of distributing them outside of Jolla store then.

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