Make OSC available on F-Droid

[stefannagy]

In the F-Droid forum I asked if the OSC Android app meets the F-Droid inclusion criteria. I was told

No. It includes proprietary libraries (com.crashlytics.sdk.android, com.google.android.gms) and custom Maven repositories.

I'd love to see OSC in F-Droid.

[ramack]

It would be great to have a free (as in free software) variant of OSC, which even respects privacy of the users. So in my eyes it is not only about a second distribution channel, but even if you decide to only publish this great app on play store it makes totally sense to have two build flavors, a free and the "traditional" one, if not even only e free one.

The F-droid inclusion criteria are not just restrictions for developers, they totally make sense in my eyes.

[contrapunctus-1]

I am an avid OSM contributor and have often wished I could contribute to OSC or Mapillary to aid OSM. Unfortunately, I'm unable to do so as neither Mapillary nor OSC clients are available on F-Droid.

[stephan75]

About manually install of apk files: they seem to not be recent on https://github.com/openstreetcam/android/releases

[PanderMusubi]

See also https://github.com/openstreetcam/android/issues/8 and https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/issues/80

[tuxayo]

Now the bigger problem is that the app is not anymore libre/open source, see #153

[PanderMusubi]

So we close this issue on closedstreetcam?

[tuxayo]

Source code of current (v3.0.1) version released

[tuxayo]

Well, nope :(

https://github.com/openstreetcam/android/issues/153#issuecomment-589282074

[mnalis]

since the issue #153 have been removed, here is last known archive of link above: http://web.archive.org/web/20201107225942/https://github.com/openstreetcam/android/issues/153#issuecomment-589282074