Danilo:
Hello Holger
How is version 4.5 coming along? And have you been in contact with the
F-Droid folks about including it there?
It will probably be released as a final version soon. Regarding F-Droid, we
haven't been in touch yet, I still have to investigate whether a build variant
with optional play services (for push) would be acceptable, or whether it would
need to be a build variant without any traces of play services. There may be an
official F-Droid version offered in the future (using licensing from
https://shop.threema.ch/), but we aren't sure about it yet.
I can speak for F-Droid here. There is no objection to Google or Play Services
specifically. The limitation is F-Droid only publishes free software, like
Debian. The GCM/FCM libraries are proprietary, so cannot be included in
F-Droid. Apps like Tutanota, Firefox, etc. generally make a "free" or "fdroid"
flavor to handle that.
https://f-droid.org/2018/09/03/replacing-gcm-in-tutanota.html
Another possibility is making a Threema fdroid repo, then you can include any
APK you want, but users have to subscribe to that repo. Here's how to get
started with that:
https://f-droid.org/docs/Setup_an_F-Droid_App_Repo/
.hc
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