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Organic mentions Open Source, but I just saw that FDroid mentions the following: "This app contains non open source components - compiled binary data files (including but not limited to .mwm map files) under a non FLOSS license"

Anyone has context on the following not hidden over Git-* issues (I was left thoroughly confused trying to understand it)?

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OrganicMaps rolled their own 'data license' for the actual map files: https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/blob/master/DATA_...

Plus the code that's necessary to generate the map files that OM relies on is no longer openly published. So while true that the actual app code is open source, you can't use it without relying on their proprietary map files.

>Plus the code that's necessary to generate the map files that OM relies on is no longer openly published.

Seems like a big red flag. And another reason to migrate to CoMaps.

>Seems like a big red flag. And another reason to migrate to CoMaps.

Why do you think OM user base forked and mass migrated to CoMaps?? haha

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