It is really encouraging to see this fork gain traction after the great Simple Mobile Tools Android apps were sold to an adware company and stopped being open source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505229. Thanks for all the work Naveen Singh (https://github.com/naveensingh / @naveenyc) and others to make the fork already this popular. I really hope there will be enough funds for Naveen to start working full-time on Fossify. I've setup a recurring donation and hope others who can will contribute as well (https://github.com/FossifyOrg#support-fossify-heart).
As noted in the blog post of this new release, K-9 is looking for more funding. Earlier this year a call for donations (https://k9mail.app/2021/02/14/K-9-Mail-is-looking-for-fundin...) was quite successful, but the goal of $1000 per week is not yet met. It is currently at $770, so let's get it to $1000!
But I can really recommend creating a Liberapay acccount (it accepts PayPal) as many FOSS projects use it to receive donations and Liberapay is open source itself and run by a non-profit. Let's get K-9 to its goal of $1000: https://liberapay.com/k9mail
You can enable the 'Unstable updates' option in F-Droid's settings to receive notifications for new beta versions to avoid having to check manually. The downside is that you'll receive these updates for all apps, so be sure to check if a new version is a beta version for apps that you want to keep on stable versions.
Given the amount of backlash this whole debacle has in the community, couldn't a crowdfunding to cover legal costs be successful enough to start a lawsuit? AFAIK funding is the main reason why a lawsuit isn't happening (https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_461).
Everyone should still move to Libera, but a lawsuit might bring some justice.
It is really encouraging to see this fork gain traction after the great Simple Mobile Tools Android apps were sold to an adware company and stopped being open source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505229. Thanks for all the work Naveen Singh (https://github.com/naveensingh / @naveenyc) and others to make the fork already this popular. I really hope there will be enough funds for Naveen to start working full-time on Fossify. I've setup a recurring donation and hope others who can will contribute as well (https://github.com/FossifyOrg#support-fossify-heart).