AFAICT their license does not fulfill the OSI definition and is therefore ineligible for inclusion in the main F-Droid repo.
They have their own F-Droid repo:
https://app.futo.org/fdroid/repo/
The repo is also pre-included in clients such as Droid-ify, which I use anyway because I like it better than the official client.
FUTO Keyboard is hands down the best option.
If you have philosophical objections to the FUTO license, then your options are Heliboard and Florisboars. Heliboard is currently better, but Florisboard has promise.
Whatever “has joined futo” even means.
In the end the devs got hired for a few years to do full-time what used to be their passion project.
Heh. I have mixed feelings myself.
The bad:
I don’t really like their license. It somehow means that the forks are never on equal footing with the original, until all original code has been replaced. If OpenOffice.org had been under that license Oracle would have been successful at killing it, and we wouldn’t have LibreOffice. Yeah, that sucks.
They mostly stay out of politics, but what little I hear from them reeks of a brand of libertarianism that really isn’t my cup of tea.
The good:
Their software, from what I have see so far, I awesome. Their keyboard is great, Immich is great. Grayjay is… Pretty good. I have no use for Zulip but I expect that’s also great.
And to me theu really sound like they are trying to do good work, and their heart is mostly in the right place. I believe we need to be tolerant enough to be able to live with people who have slightly different politics from us. In the end it’s not like I had zero exceptions on the politics of RMS or ESR.
Which one of the three I suggested?
FUTO is definitely a bit more resource hungry. Try Heliboard, you need to add a separate library to enable swiping, but it’s definitely way lighter.