Thanks for the replies everyone. I’ve decided to not let my concerns overcome the most important thing of releasing the project as fully open source.

Just going to go with GPLv3 and not worry about the clones that will happen regardless of the license type, if the program becomes popular.

Thank you all for your insight and for helping me come to what I believe to be the best decision.

Thank you for the link :)

Hi. I answered this question here: https://lemmy.world/comment/4851408

Thanks for the info. I replied to your question in a similar comment here: https://lemmy.world/comment/4851408

I replied to a similar question below. Here it is:

Thanks. To be honest, I couldn’t care less if people use parts of my code in commercial programs.

The only thing I’m trying to prevent is someone taking the entire project, changing some strings and icons and releasing a paid Android version based on my work. Especially as I will be releasing mobile versions myself after the desktop versions for free.

Thanks. To be honest, I couldn’t care less if people use parts of my code in commercial programs.

The only thing I’m trying to prevent is someone taking the entire project, changing some strings and icons and releasing a paid Android version based on my work. Especially as I will be releasing mobile versions myself after the desktop versions for free.

Have you tried flatseal?

I thought you were joking until I clicked the link.

I believe there is a setting to disable showing the volume on applications open in the taskbar in the settings app (naturally, in desktop mode).

Or it might be an option after right clicking the taskbar. Can’t recall which one it is.

Disabling this should prevent you from being able to mute them accidentally in the future.