

Aaah so a backtick is for strings? WRONG!!! IT EXECUTES THE FUCKING COMMAND!!!
To be fair this is what they do in Perl and shell scripts (and in PHP too), so it’s not unexpected behavior in that world.
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Aaah so a backtick is for strings? WRONG!!! IT EXECUTES THE FUCKING COMMAND!!!
To be fair this is what they do in Perl and shell scripts (and in PHP too), so it’s not unexpected behavior in that world.
Being on Github doesn’t guarantee that something is free software. In this case though it is, under the Apache 2.0 License: https://github.com/KeybeeKeyboard/KB-androidApplication/blob/main/LICENSE
This does not look to be free software. Where is the source code? I found a page on google play store that says “contains ads.”
There have been efforts to create free rebuilds of the SDK: https://forum.f-droid.org/t/open-source-android-development-tools/30599/136
Putting a proprietary app into a web page doesn’t make it not proprietary. And, if it’s using some web server to replace the built in radio, it may be Service as a Software Substitute too.