Hi again, I haven’t gone too deeply into these permission things. But I am always suspicious about the permissions required by apps. Indeed, I also noticed that even without granting any permissions (at least related) to Eudic, it is possible to use Eudic and also download additional dictionaries provided by Eudic. If it is not possible to use Dict Tango without giving permission, this will be a deal breaker for me.
PS: I saw the discussion about Open Source, personally I support you to own the app without making it open source. You shouldn’t be force to open source it, if you have a business plan for it. You put your effort there and deserve well to profit from it at some later point. But if you don’t want to charge in any way of this app (e.g., decided to keep it for free forever), make it open source can also be a way for you to gain reputation and acknowledgement. Anyway, as an end user, my core concern is that I can use this app without losing control of my privacy. If an app is useful to me and without privacy issues, I am also willing to pay for it. Like I have paid AnkiMobile (yes I have both Android (with FOSS Anki app) and iOS mobiles phones) which costs quite some bucks, because I think the developer deserves being paid at this price. (he open sourced desktop versions of Anki - this is the part I admire him in this regard)
Thank you for your suggestion, I prefer to provide this app for free but keep it close source.
And as I mentioned, if you have concerns about this permissions, please try other apps instead.
Here are the privacy permissions for Eudic and Dict Tango for your preference.
There are perhaps other legitimate reasons why the developer wants his app closed sourced. Judging from the frequent updates, the developer himself also uses this app on a daily basis. It’s easier for him to be informed of any bugs this way. If he open sources the code, and it gets forked, he may need extra effort to keep track of all possible changes. So don’t push it.
Yes, I fully agree with you - don’t push developer any more. Developer takes a lot of time to maintain it, adds new functions so often, it’s not easy! and he insists on free and never asks for any donation for several years, it’s not easy for anyone! Thanks glacierlee!
As we get ready to dive into the open source world, one of the many activities that’s occurring is the preparation of the code for being open sourced. There are some obvious things that need to be done. For instance, our source code includes a mixture of code that we’ve written and code that we’ve licensed from others. We’ll need to separate out the latter and open source only the appropriate pieces of code.
Another preparation activity is “scrubbing” the code of proprietary information, mentions of particular customers, developers, technologies etc. This is a little less obvious, but consider the following example:
/\*
\* HACK - insert a time delay here because the stupid Intertrode
\* Technologies framebuffer driver will hang the system if we
\* don't. Those guys over there must really be idiots.
\*/
While all of the above might be true, we probably have a relationship of some sort with Intertrode Tech and having comments like this in the code could hurt our business somehow and so it should be removed. Arguably it shouldn’t have been there in the first place, but now’s the time to take it out.
Another part of the “scrubbing” activity is to remove profanity and other “undesirable” words…
Hi, as I have expressed in my last post. I will not use this app if I have to give the file access permission. However, I still wish to have another good enough app to use if you make it acceptable. I was just suggesting to make it better.
For your comparison of Eudic and Dict Tango. Just one opinion from me, there is a difference between how many permissions an app wants and how many persimmons I have to give in order to use it. (I haven’t given any permission to Eudic but I can use it; this doesn‘t work for Dict Tango - In comparison, this make Dict Tango very suspicious of what it wants to collect from my storage)
Man will always be man, there is no new man. The management team worked so hard to create a forum that was equal, where there’d be nothing to envy any others in this forum. But there’s always something to envy. A dictionmary, a PDF file, something you don’t have and want to appropriate. Even in this world, there will always be rich and poor. Rich in gifts, poor in gifts. Rich in love, poor in love.