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Heliboard +1
Heliboard +1
+1 FUTO Keyboard and Heliboard
Heliboard works better than florisboard right now
FUTO keyboard works flawlessly and has great auto prediction
Is there an Update on this topic?
rellhom Yea, I have those same Questions. And for example about the privacy that the Keyboard collects what I type.
Have the maintainers of GrapheneOS considered replacing the AOSP keyboard with FUTO keyboard? FUTO is the best keyboard I've tried and I've tried them all, including FlorisBoard, Fossify Keyboard and HeliBoard. The text prediction is VERY good, almost on par, if not as good as GBoard.
What is wrong with FUTO keyboard? It's open source and very privacy friendly.
rkeenan I don't know if there might be licensing issues. FUTO is not open source; it's source available with an according license.
FlorisBoard +1
What does that mean? The source code is on github. What does the license mean?
rkeenan The source code is on github. What does the license mean?
"Open Source" does not mean the same thing as "the source is on GitHub".
The current FUTO keyboard license is here. It is different from licenses recognized as "open source" by the OSI because it forbids people from doing things that are allowed by the OSI-approved "open source" licenses.
The current FUTO license isn't necessarily bad in an absolute sense. But it is very possible that the GrapheneOS developers won't accept it.
rellhom I installed FlorisBoard and I loved it! It don't needs Internet and it don't learn what you type. It has incognito mode which I really like. And it feels better. I don't know how private the voice to text is but yea, I would recommend it, more than AOSP Keyboard. But if your on GrapheneOS you could keep the Keyboard too, since you could turn the Internet for that off.
Hehels Had some good experience with Heliboard myself. I've managed to recreate all Gboard functions in it including a multilanguage keyboard with prediction, swipetyping and voicetyping. Plus it works with FUTO voice input while Gboard doesn't. The default settings on Heliboard are kinda crap though. It looks like AOSP keyboard out of the box.
For a Gboard-like experience:
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I've always subscribed to the GNU definition of FOSS.
(0) to run the program, (1) to study and change the program in source code form, (2) to redistribute exact copies, and (3) to distribute modified versions.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
And this license tracks. The limitation being that you can't take the software then sell it (or remove their licensing or copyright stuff)
billbutter I've always subscribed to the GNU definition of FOSS.
If FUTO wished to subscribe to that definition, they could use a GPL license. But the current FUTO license forbids others from doing what FUTO is doing.
As I understand it, the FUTO keyboard is a fork of an earlier project, which FUTO is investing in and wants to be paid for. That is fine, but their license forbids others from forking it, investing in it, and shifting any payment stream their way.
What if FUTO as a company shuts down? Eventually most companies do. Or what if they decide to end development of this one program, or sell it? Companies do that, too.
When SimpleMobileTools was sold and changed direction, the code was forked as Fossify. If FUTO were to change radically (as sometimes happens with companies, and non-company organizations), the software can't just be forked by a different organization that wishes to continue the previous model.
Regardless of whether FUTO's license model is a good one, it genuinely isn't the same as GPL or MIT or Apache, which are symmetrical. The FUTO license restricts some benefits to FUTO.
Thanks for this, one question for you. Where do you adjust the size to 120%? I see a setting for keyboard height scale and bottom padding scale in the appearance settings but not sure if this is what you're talking about...
treenutz68 Yeah, I meant the Appearance->Keyboard Height Scale setting.
A recent official statement on the topic from the Mastodon account:
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/113444455911152130
Additional thread (via DefaultKevin's and Hugo's replies) with more detail on the keyboard as well as licensing broadly:
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/113444555346758882