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<title>Contribute! - Free Your Android! - FSFE</title>
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<link type="text/css" href="/campaigns/android/android.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen and (min-device-width:1280px) and (min-width:1200px)" />
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<meta name="cc-license" content="Portions of this page are
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modifications based on work created and shared by Google and
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used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0
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Attribution License. Android is a trademark of Google Inc." />
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<body>
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<p id="category"><a href="/campaigns/android/android.html">Free Your Android</a></p>
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<h1>Contribute and Help Others!</h1>
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<div id="introduction">
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<div class="image" id="hello-free-droid">
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<img src="/campaigns/android/robot.png" alt="Liberated Android Robot" />
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</div>
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<p>
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Help us to encourage people to liberate their devices and convince app
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developers to release their app as Free Software.
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The various Free Software initiatives also need help
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and we need to ensure that they stay free as in freedom.
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</p>
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</div>
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<h2 id="OS">Operating Systems</h2>
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<p>
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Even though custom versions of Android are all based on Free Software,
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sometimes non-free parts find their way into these ROMs.
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Help us to identify and remove those parts.
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</p>
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<p>
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If you know about non-free software added to CyanogenMod or other versions of Android,
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please <a href="mailto:android@lists.fsfe.org">let us know</a> about it!
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We collect <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Android#Non-Free_Parts">current information</a> in the wiki.
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</p>
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<h2 id="Apps">Apps and F-Droid</h2>
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<p>
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The F-Droid initiative <a href="http://f-droid.org/contribute/">lists many ways to contribute</a>.
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Have a look!
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Maybe there is something that you can do easily.
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</p>
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<p>
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Other than that, you can help to make F-Droid <a
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href="https://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmod/issues/detail?id=3789">preinstalled
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on CyanogenMod</a> so more people can benefit from a free market.
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Other proposals to spread the word about F-Droid can be found in
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<a href="http://f-droid.org/forums/topic/spreading-the-word-about-f-droid/">the F-Droid forum</a>.
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</p>
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<h3>Adding Apps Yourself</h3>
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<p>
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You are encouraged to add applications To F-Droid yourself. There is a long queue
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of <a
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href="http://f-droid.org/forums/forum/submission-queue/">applications
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that wait to be added</a>. Adding them works similar to <a
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href="http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html">FreeBSD ports</a> and <a
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href="http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1#doc_chap2">gentoo
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ebuilds</a> by filling a simple recipe file which controls how a package
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is build from source. If you like to add apps yourself, you should read
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about <a
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href="http://f-droid.org/forums/topic/adding-apps-with-git/">how F-Droid
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works with git</a> and <a
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href="https://gitorious.org/f-droid/fdroidserver/blobs/master/README">how
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to write these so called metadata files</a>.
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</p>
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<h3 id="FreeingApps">Freeing Non-Free Apps</h3>
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<p>
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Unfortunately, there are still some applications that do not have a free
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alternative. To use the proprietary app is a bad idea; it takes away
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your freedom. In addition, if you settle into using the non-free
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program, you won't feel the need for it to be free. Even if you don't
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know how to program, you can <a
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/ConvinceYourFriends">contact</a> the authors
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of crucial apps and <a href="https://fsfe.pad.foebud.org/en-android">ask
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them politely</a> for their reasons for not publishing their app as Free
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Software. Many apps are available without payments, so money is not
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always the dominating reason. Sometimes one email can make a difference
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and there have already been successful attempts: <a
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href="https://market.android.com/details?id=cz.hejl.chesswalk">Chess
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Walk</a> for example is now <a
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href="https://gitorious.org/chesswalk/chesswalk">liberated</a>.
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</p>
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<h4>Apps That Still Need To Be Liberated</h4>
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<p>
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We collect apps that have no free counterpart, but are important to have
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on a free system <a
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Android#Apps_That_Still_Need_To_Be_Liberated">in
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our wiki</a>. Please add other essential apps there. People can <a
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/ConvinceYourFriends">contact the authors</a>
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of those apps and ask them why they are not Free Software.
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</p>
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<h4>Responses to Objections We've Heard from App Developers</h4>
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<p>
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Only when we understand the motivation of programmers who keep their
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apps proprietary, we know what needs to be changed in order to change
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their minds and to convince them of liberating their own app. Please <a
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Android#Responses_to_Objections_We.27ve_Heard_from_App_Developers">contribute
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your experiences</a> with developers of non-free apps here and <a
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Android#Responses_to_Objections_We.27ve_Heard_from_App_Developers">share
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useful responses</a> to their objections.
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<strong>Objection:</strong> If I publish my app as Free Software, I
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will not be able to make money with it.
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<ul>
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<li> You can still offer your app in other markets and ask for money
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there. </li>
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<li> Offer options for people to donate. Free markets
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like F-Droid can include them and their users like to reward.
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Depending on your case, you might make more money with donations
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than from sales. </li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>
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<strong>Objection:</strong> But when my app is Free Software other
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people can distribute it without me getting profit.
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<ul>
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<li> That is true, but keep in mind that people who don't want to
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pay you will always find ways to do so. </li>
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<li> If you ask people
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in a friendly non-obtrusive way and give them good reasons, they
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will give you money. </li>
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<li> In case other people distribute your
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app without charge over markets, there are ways to stop that.
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Talking to the distributor or the market operator is one way. </li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>
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<strong>Objection:</strong> I'm embarrassed by my bad code and don't
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want anybody to see it (from <a
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href="http://blog.flattr4android.com/?p=52">Flattr4Android</a>).
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<ul>
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<li> Your code is very useful to many people and it works. Of course
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good code would be better, but code quality is secondary to freedom.
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</li>
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<li> Everybody wrote bad code at some point. Sharing it will
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enable others to help you improving it. </li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="Contact">Contact</h2>
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<p>
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If you want to stay informed or like to work with others on a free
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Android system, you can <strong><a
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href="https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/android">subscribe to the
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mailing-list</a></strong>. You can also ask questions or give input by
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writing to <a
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href="mailto:android@lists.fsfe.org">android@lists.fsfe.org</a>.
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For technical questions about apps, the <a
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href="irc://irc.freenode.net/fdroid">F-Droid IRC channel</a> is a good
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place to ask. For exchange about the lower layers of Android, the <a
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href="irc://irc.freenode.net/cyanogenmod">CyanogenMod IRC channel</a> is
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more suitable. Everybody in this community is very friendly and loves
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others to help, so don't be shy and get involved!
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</p>
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</body>
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<timestamp>$Date: 2012-02-17 15:16:09 +0100 (ven. 17 févr. 2012) $ $Author: hugo $</timestamp>
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