As reported in a reddit post and confirmed in a github discussion, Simple Mobile Tools is being sold to ZippoApps which is known for shady business practices.
It is not yet clear whether they will make the app suite closed source (which would infringe the rights of all contributors since they contributed under the GPLv3 license).
In response to that situation, one of the main contributors forked the project under the name FossifyX and will continue to work on it.
Hopefully FDroid keeps an eye on this project and removes/replaces the “Simple” suite as necessary.
At the very least I imagine they will flag it with the undesirable features tag once someone gives them a heads up 🤞
Forgive me if I’m wrong because I’m a bit confused, but I think only the free version or non pro version are the sold ones?
Aren’t the pro versions available in F-droid already? Would those be affected?
I think they will migrate everything to fossify. With the gallery this already happened, the SMT Gallery vanished from my phone and the fossify gallery appeared. I guess that’s a good way to go, since for now fossify is just the same thing with a different name.