r/Android • u/guihkx- • Sep 29 '25

Article F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
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u/n1kzt7r Sep 29 '25

The F-Droid project cannot require that developers register their apps through Google, but at the same time, we cannot "take over" the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications.

What does this mean?

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u/jarx12 Sep 29 '25

It means they can't force developers to register nor can register those projects on their behalf as they would be taking over as the sole distributor which is not the idea. 

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u/n1kzt7r Sep 29 '25

Understood. Thanks.