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Open source licenses are licenses that comply with the Open Source Definition — in brief, they allow software to be freely used, modified, and shared.

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And how do these apps not allow that?

Unnecessary restrictions on use such as changing the colour of the gui, is not within the general goals of Open source software.

You can free to change the color of the GUI in the code and build it yourself. Change the values here to your liking - https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Commons/blob/mas... .

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