The same opensource app, downloadable on both stores but paid on playstore and free on fdroid. Is it legal and is it ethical? Why?

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If you don’t own the copyright and its libre software, this is 100% legal too

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No. It’s not. Please take a look at different licenses in this area, whatever ‘libre’ means

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Libre is a type of license that makes this legal. Eg GPL or CC SA

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