Fossify Gallery on the official F-Droid repo
The removal isn’t directly related to the buyout/fork. Simple Gallery was taken off of F-Droid due to a dependency on the nonfree Google VR being discovered by IzzySoft¹ ². Fossify’s fork has removed the dependent features to be compliant³.
Were the other simple apps forked as well, or just Gallery?
Everything was forked and should eventually end up on F-Droid, but most things haven’t had a release yet. My understanding is that they’re hoping to do everything right immediately, including having proper new branding and all the shared functionality from Simple Thank You.
The F-Droid versions of SMT apps are perfectly safe and shouldn’t be going anywhere. (But if you have Google Play versions, I wouldn’t trust those anymore, those are owned by ZipoApps now.)
Cool, thanks for the info! All of mine are f-droid and figured they’d be okay for now. Definitely looking to switch though but I’m lazy and prefer to do things through f-droid lol
They were, no new releases yet though except calendar