Re: Lift "runs on GNU/Linux" requirement

[David Hedlund]

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.
>
>
I added your argument to
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Infrastructure#Why_single-platform_free_software_should_have_their_own_pages_instead_of_external_links_in_the_FSD

Thank you Adonay.