Re: [libreplanet-discuss] F-Droid's Antifeatures

[Andrés Muñiz Piniella]

El 6 de febrero de 2016 11:27:05 GMT+00:00, Fabio Pesari <fabiop@gnu.org> 
escribió:
>F-Droid is great for finding libre Android programs, however I do have
>an issue with their inclusion policy, and in particular their
>acceptance
>of "Antifeatures":
>
>https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Antifeatures
>
>I disagree with all of those compromises (except "Upstream Non-free",
>since they patch their version to be free) and I wouldn't want them in
>software I run (especially because, in some cases like Ads and
>Tracking,
>they could easily be stripped out).
>
>To be fair, they do warn users, so there is little risk of an informed
>free software user installing any of them, however those share the same
>repository as the other programs and I don't think that's good for
>promoting software freedom.
>
>I think that at the very least, F-Droid should distribute the fully
>free
>programs from their main repository and if they really want to offer
>programs with "Antifeatures", they should be distributed from a
>separate
>repository that must be manually enabled (or they could ask the users
>during the first run). They already do it for the "Guardian Project"
>repository and this wouldn't be much different.
>
>What do you think about it?

Agreed, it is a good idea, sounds easy to me like a user. But I bet it is 
difficult to do and maintan. the gaurdian project repo is maintained by the 
gaurdian group AFAIK. who would want to maintain an Anti-feature repo? already 
sounds negative. 

There are more and more apps now on F-droid. so hopefully the main one won't 
look empty. 

But I think this should be mentioned in the redmine for f-droid. as a feature 
request. 


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