When a legal takedown request arrives, whether it’s about copyright, censorship, privacy or something more vague, how a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) project responds can make all the difference. Handled well, a takedown request can be a manageable administrative step. Handled poorly, it can cause panic, disrupt infrastructure...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 04 Sep 2025, Week 36 F-Droid core Given these past weeks events we got sidetracked into caring more about CPU architectures, web servers certificates and APK signatures. We need not lose track of our goals, and these are not short timed, and...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 28 Aug 2025, Week 35 F-Droid core F-Droid’s push for decentralization means not only having multiple repos, but also clients and mirrors. Since 2017 the Client has been able to use mirrors and share the load between mirrors and main server so...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 21 Aug 2025, Week 34 Community News The Matrix ecosystem fixed some major bugs that affected servers and clients too. The CVE level issues were announced back in July but things were intentionally kept vague while developers worked hard on yet another...

When we started this project, the first question we asked ourselves was, “What laws apply to F-Droid?” It seems simple, but the answer is not always so obvious. Free and open source software (FOSS) projects are often global by nature. Our contributors and users span continents, our infrastructure is distributed,...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 14 Aug 2025, Week 33 F-Droid core After the last TWIF we pushed the latest version of F-Droid Client and Basic as suggested, so if the About screen does not say 1.23.1 you need to update now. We’ve been continuing to look...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 07 Aug 2025, Week 32 F-Droid core Looks like the past still haunts us. We’ve covered, or better said uncovered, the cycle in more detail in the last two weekly posts. Last week we explained how “when we stop a cycle the...

In April, we published a piece outlining some of the work underway to help strengthen the F-Droid project against unjust intrusion, interception and monitoring. We shared how contributors, maintainers, and developers in the free software world are increasingly navigating takedown demands, vague or impractical regulations, and aggressive enforcement actions and...