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In-app purchases: You can buy another theme if you want. There is no need to do that - the whole functionality is available anyway. I thought it would be nice to at least have the opportunity to make some money from it...

I haven't thought about open-sourcing it... Maybe I'll think about it...

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Making additional themes be in-app purchases seems like a reasonable way of funding the project. You might want to specifically say in the app description in the store what the in-app purchases are. I was kind of suspicious until I saw this explanation.

"Free on F-Droid, $3 on the Play Store" is another approach I've seen (e.g., Conversations and DAV5x).

Good point - I changed the description!

Nothing wrong with wanting to make some money. Especially with something like additional themes.

Please just don't hide existing/important features :).

You can always pop it on GitHub with no license. You retain copyright, nobody can do anything with it. Would enable users to report bugs there in the Issues area, or you could make a basic GitHub Pages site, or there's a wiki or discussion forum.

If you did add a license, users could submit PRs of bug fixes or new features. If you don't have a lot of users it probably would get very little traffic and so not become burdensome. (And you can always ignore it... Not ideal, but life comes first)

If you care about privacy and want to have some fun with the license idea, you can add an Ethical Source license, so anyone who uses your code has to comply with a code of ethics. (https://ethicalsource.dev/licenses/) Maybe a license that says you cannot use this if you actively work against women's reproductive health/freedoms?

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