Comment by AlienRobot
15 days ago
I feel like this is disingenuous. I have never used F-droid, but it seems they only publish open source apps and they take the initiative selecting them.
This isn't a good app store for the majority of app developers, since they wouldn't be able to publish there out of their own accord.
It isn't an invite only club. Anyone can submit an existing application[0] and an app author can provide a metadata pack to speed up the process. They have some requirements to accept but it isn't a situation where a developer is just waiting around for the letter of invite to arrive[1].
[0] https://f-droid.org/en/contribute/ [1] https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Submitting_to_F-Droid_Quick_Star...
You can also use other repos than F-Droid's if you want to get apps from elsewhere.
But it's an open-source only club, that severely limits the sort of developer that can have their application published in that store at all.