• andobando@lemmy.world
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    Just added the Apache License.

    Goals:

    1. Better UI (I am aiming for old.reddit) for lemmy with a new design (repetitive icons, hard to distinguish comments, terrible mobile UI) and fixing common issues, like freezing, spinners loading forever, etc.
    2. Single codebase for web, native Android and iOS apps. This is possible with Svelte + Capacitor.
    3. Svelte codebase which I believe will be far easier to develop on.
    4. Rethink how communities are browsed/integrated as alluded to in this post. This is my end goal, but I need to have some discussions about what this will exactly look like.

    My current goal is to just get the site working with all/most of the existing functionality. For that there is a lot to do. Profile/settings page, comment replies, community browser/subscriptions to name a few.

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      Sounds great!! I will be pendent of news about that project. Currently I’m using Jerboa. Not so bad and needs improve a lot of stuff, would be great could use Infinity for Reddit but for Lemmy. Is open source so I think it could possible, but I’m not a programmer yet. Good luck!!

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        It seems like Jerboa uses GPLv3 as well, as does Bitwarden and some other open source apps. Its probably ok though it seems like it can run into trouble way down the line. Im going to keep the GPLv3 for now.

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          It seems that the lemmy-js-client library you are using is licensed under AGPLv3. So I’m not sure if you are allowed to use it with your current license. You might have to make your project AGPLv3 too.

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              AGPL is a Copyleft license, so how can it be possible to use such library in an Apache licensed program? Isn’t the whole idea of Copyleft to make that impossible? To make sure that nobody can take away users freedoms?

              I think what they meant on gnu.org is that you can use Apache licensed code in a GPL licensed program.

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        Just did some reading and it indeed does seem like GPL is not allowed in app stores as it does not allow any further restrictions (such as Apples store’s requirements).

        I have to do some research.

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      I might try my hand at contributing. I have yet to do any open source development but really want to work on something lemmy related.

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      Single codebase for web, native Android and iOS apps. This is possible with Svelte + Capacitor.

      Interesting. Is this easier to work in than React Native?

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        I am not a fan of React, so in my opinion, yes. The substantial difference here is this isn’t native, its just a webapp that looks and feels just like a native application. The nice thing here is its just vanilla JS/CSS/HTML.