Introduction In our previous article, we explored how Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects like F-Droid handle legal requests for user or developer data. In this post, we’re shifting focus to a broader andrapidly growing legal challenge: platform responsibility under laws like the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA), the...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 17 Oct 2025, Week 42 Community News We’ve featured Taler news before, and while reading about possibilities and what it does “in theory” sounds nice, having their apps and infrastructure to actually test and use is what everyone wants. Hence, following last...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 09 Oct 2025, Week 41 Community News The end of tt-rss.org might be a reason to be sad. We have at least two apps that connect to such instances, TTRSS-Reader and Geekttrss, but looks like development continues at github.com/tt-rss. @linsui updates to...

Introduction In the previous article in this series, we examined how FOSS projects handle legal takedown requests. However another category of legal risk exists, one that’s often more sensitive and less visible: government requests for user or developer data. These requests can take many forms,from formal court orders and subpoenas,...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 03 Oct 2025, Week 40 F-Droid core Back in August we’ve talked about the core of our infrastructure, the servers CPUs and their age. This issue has two paths to be fixed. One in Google’s court, software side, were we’ve heard progress...

For the past 15 years, F-Droid has provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world to find and install free and open source apps. When contrasted with the commercial app stores — of which the Google Play store is the most prominent — the differences are...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 26 Sep 2025, Week 39 Community News We often talk about what we look at when we choose our apps, we want: freedom, privacy, security, transparency and more. With FLOSS apps we get most of those, or at least we can check,...

The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is “the EU’s law to make the markets in the digital sector fairer and more contestable”. F-Droid strongly aligns with many of the ideals of the DMA regarding ensuring user choice and privacy. For example: The DMA has provisions for ensuring third-party software applications or...