Re: Lift "runs on GNU/Linux" requirement

[Michael McMahon]

From a licensing perspective, Notepad++ is free software.  The Free 
Software Directory is a directory for free software.

Judging a project based on their political stances is beyond the scope 
of the Free Software Directory.  Political judgements should be left to 
the Apolitical Software Directory which does not exist.

Best,
Michael McMahon | Web Developer, Free Software Foundation
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On 8/4/21 5:39 AM, David Hedlund wrote:
> I removed Notepad++ from https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:Windows
>
> Notepad++ and more can be found at
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Single-platform_free_software
> that I added to
> https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory_talk:Free_software_replacements#Single-platform_free_software
>
> On 2021-08-02 23:24, Adonay Felipe Nogueira via wrote:
> > Em 23-07-2021 23:34, David Hedlund escreveu:
> > > Added: "We list external links to free software without GNU/Linux
> > > support for other operating systems
> > > <https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Free_software_replacements>
> > > if they are particularly useful." to
> > > https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Category/Runs-on/GNU/Linux
> > I don't think we should let external links to possible free/libre
> > software appear in public-facing pages unless we make create proper
> > entries for those software.
> >
> > The Directory is a place where anyone can add software entries for
> > review, then some evaluators/reviewers do one or two review checks (with
> > varying depth of detail) and approve it or not in a way similar to
> > saying that is, at that time and to that specific version, considered
> > free/libre. If we simply link to a possibly free/libre software without
> > actually reviewing it, we run the risk of, for example, end up linking
> > to a software for Windows that depends on Microsoft Visual C++
> > Redistributable.
> >
> > Also, I don't know if you recall this David Hedlund, but when we created
> > the Collection namespace, both of us agreed that it would be used as a
> > means of listing already-reviewed and curated/selected free/libre
> > software that do some task to replace non-free ones.