You could license it under the (A)GPL, charge for downloads in the Play store or for compiled binaries on ur website and ask for donations on F-Droid.

You could even do a freemium version where some features are locked in the binaries you distribute and need a license from ur website or smth (for those who don’t want to use Google Play). (iirc SD Maid 2/SE does this)

Someone else could just compile the app themselves, unlock all premium features and distribute it to play store without violating the license?

Can’t Python be translated into machine code and packaged into a binary? I swear I have no experience in OS development, just curious.

Isn’t this a problem with every package/library system? Is there really a solution to this that doesn’t limit packages with how they handle their dependencies?

This may also be about trust. npm probably could limit a number of dependencies that a single package can have with an arbitrary limit, but they don’t do that, because they trust the developers they won’t misuse their options. Well…

Node packaging is fucked. Node packaging remains fucked.

I am sorry, but as a noobie user of npm I don’t understand. It works pretty well for me if you use it normally for what it is supposed for.

AFAIK Opera has some kind of patent for this, so other browsers cannit implement it so easily.

Thank you for your explanation! From what I have read ‘#pragma once’ solves the problem with mutiple includes for most modern compilers, but it’s always better to write the import guards for better compatability?