Is That App Open Source?

A modest proposal: Give mobile device users the option to see which apps are open source, when browsing in app stores, and the option to know that the open source app they're installing was actually built from the publicly-accessible source code it claims to be built from. Right now, when an app is labeled "Free", you have no way of knowing whether that means "no fee to download" or actually means "open source" [1]. Usually it's the former, but not always. For example, in Android-land's default online app catalog, Google Play, here is what "Free" looks like: Which of those are open...
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