FocusPodcast looks and feels very much like an AntennaPod fork but there’s no mention of it anywhere (?)
https://f-droid.org/packages/allen.town.focus.podcast/ or https://github.com/allentown521/FocusPodcast
is it written from scratch?
I’m out of the loop, what happened to antennapod?
Nothing, some people just dislike the slow pace of its development or some design decisions and fork it (and in the process remove or break less used functionality, like Podcini can’t read any feeds on my old Android 7 phone).
There are some interesting similarities in the code and the project structure. Example:
- https://github.com/allentown521/FocusPodcast/blob/main/model/src/main/java/allen/town/podcast/model/feed/EmbeddedChapterImage.java
- https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/blame/develop/model/src/main/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/model/feed/EmbeddedChapterImage.java
This comment suggests it is a fork: https://github.com/allentown521/FocusPodcast/issues/1#issuecomment-2208289756
But otherwise i can’t find it written explicitly anywhere.
does “open source” mean that you can fork without giving credit?
No, GPL in particular demands the copyright notices are preserved.
No, you still need to follow the original license in most cases.
