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It's too bad that it's not available without anti-features in F-Droid. I disable all anti-features in Settings so intially I thought OrganicMaps is not in F-Droid until I checked the website.
What are anti-features?
I would describe it as software that is not 100% open source, and/or connects to services that run is not purely open source software connecting through standard protcols. It can't have a proprietary connection.
Basically, if both the software and the service do not run reprodible builds of the software, it is an anti-feature. For example, Proton, Telegram and NewPipe are open source apps, but the source code for their servers is not published so it's a proprietary connection or servers run proprietary software, so those apps have anti-features.
F-Droid promotes free and open software, this also includes freedom from proprietary network services, ads etc. Look here for a list: https://f-droid.org/docs/Anti-Features/