Moxie, one of the core developers of the WhispherCore products, had a pretty argumentative debate on their forum and his own Github issues regarding their repackging of his software TextSecure. It was subsequently removed, due to his indirect request (he went so far as to say he did not approve, but did not directly instruct them to do so). Despite their workflow and licensing, he believed it to be a step backwards in security as he takes issue with phone rooting and other things (if I recall correctly).
Long story short, it is a safe guess you will not see any WhisperCore products on F-Droid anytime soon. Moxie et al. say compile and patch yourself, or use the Play Store (for the faint of heart).
UPDATE: Maybe I missed something entirely as you mentioned your obvious knowledge of the F-Droid spat. Will leave it here for others though. Clumsy reading on my part, sorry.
Yup. I'm one of those that has to recompile text secure whenever there is an update. I'm hoping once F-Droid implements auto reinstall of updated apps, then moxie will permit builds on F-Droid.
Point of correctness: F-Droid does not require root privileges to install, just that user allows "untrusted" sources in android settings. Most F-Droid apps don't require root privileges. Google play on the other hand is full of malware.
I know that to be the case, I was cribbing something I read from Moxie on the F-Droid Forum where he presented his view of Cyanogen, which was pretty inaccurate.
Moxie, one of the core developers of the WhispherCore products, had a pretty argumentative debate on their forum and his own Github issues regarding their repackging of his software TextSecure. It was subsequently removed, due to his indirect request (he went so far as to say he did not approve, but did not directly instruct them to do so). Despite their workflow and licensing, he believed it to be a step backwards in security as he takes issue with phone rooting and other things (if I recall correctly).
Long story short, it is a safe guess you will not see any WhisperCore products on F-Droid anytime soon. Moxie et al. say compile and patch yourself, or use the Play Store (for the faint of heart).
One reference here:
https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/281#issu...
UPDATE: Maybe I missed something entirely as you mentioned your obvious knowledge of the F-Droid spat. Will leave it here for others though. Clumsy reading on my part, sorry.