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Futo keyboard isnt on fdroid not happy about that really hope they start publishing it there tho.
FUTO cannot decide to publish on the F-Droid main repository. The F-Droid team compiles all the apps that get published there themselves, so they decide what to publish. Well, and the F-Droid team will not publish FUTO keyboard, because it's not open-source.
they probably won't serve it on the official repo, because it's not really open source. you can look up their own repository and add it to F-droid, though.
Why would you want a F-Droid-signed app when you can have the app directly from the dev?
F-Droid is like a Linux distribution. And basically, the idea behind that is that open-source means nothing in terms of trustworthiness, unless you compile the source code yourself. The source code is what can be audited, whereas the binaries that the developer provides could be filled with malware and you'd never know about it.
Now, compiling everything yourself is complex and time-consuming, so this is where F-Droid / distros come in. Rather than trusting each and every app developer, you merely need to trust the F-Droid team.
Yes that's the thing. I trust my guys at FUTO and Rossman, and the other devs I use the apps from. But I don't know the F-Droid team