So the #Bitwarden ad on this #FLOSSWeekly episode says: "Bitwarden doesn't track your data, only crash reporting, and even that is removed in the F-Droid installation." at around 16:30 https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/720
Maybe not a big deal, but it seems like a new level for #FDroid: people paying money to promote based on F-Droid's principals, in this case, opt-out data collection is tracking.
It turns out that #Bitwarden is not yet included in @fdroidorg because of the difficulty of confirming that #Xamarin setups are fully #FreeSoftware. We welcome help here, to unlock lots of apps built with Xamarin. https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/-/issues/114
@copyrights @fdroidorg That's the basic idea of how lots of toolkits are handled in #FDroid. The devil is in the details, and someone just needs to actually get it building within the F-Droid setup.
@copyrights @fdroidorg There aren't any #dotnet people involved currently, that is probably why this hasn't happened yet. Also, another aspect of this is that we need a way to verify that any libraries that an app downloads are also free software. We know how to do that for Maven repos, for example.
@eighthave @fdroidorg I still don't get. If it is possible to build xamarin-android with #foss and as #foss, why not building it once in a while in a different CI job and use the artifacts? If it has too much dependencies, put it in a #container image and run it rootless with #podman. Or am I missing something?