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FOSS Keyboards

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Here's a couple of FOSS keyboard alternatives in no particular order:

Unexpected Keyboard - fdroid

  • GitHub Repo
  • License: GPL-3.0
  • Permissions:

    control vibration
    run at startup

FlorisBoard - fdroid

  • GitHub Repo
  • Apache-2.0
  • Permissions:

    control vibration

Thumb-Key - fdroid

  • GitHub Repo
  • AGPL-3.0
  • Permissions:

    com.dessalines.thumbkey.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

Notable Extra Notes:

I've used Unexpected Keyboard and FlorisBoard and I'd say that they're great introductory FOSS apps for most users (users inexperienced to sudden changes)

  • Unexpected Keyboard uses Nix in their codebase :D

  • Thumb-Key is maintained by dessalines whom is a Lemmy dev

  • Florisboard is starting to convert their codebase to Rust,

    • literally their commit to main yesterday:

      "Switch native code to Rust"

    so this is pretty awesome to see!!

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[–] Ategon@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I havent looked into FOSS keyboards much but It looks like they're licensed as GPL on the repo. The CC BY-SA is for the project icon

https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#license

[–] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

ah rip I didn't see that and I've made a mistake
much appreciated!