Re: Replacement applications on nonfree systems

[David Hedlund]

I don't understand. Can you please just give me some text to copy/paste?

On 2021-08-28 05:01, Richard Stallman wrote:
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>   > I will add that. But first, should this text be modified in
>   > 
> https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Requirements#Free_programs
>   > ?
>
>   >   * "The program must run under free GNU-like systems, but not limited
>   >     to the GNU <https://www.gnu.org/> operating system and its free
>   >     GNU/Linux distributions
>   >     <https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html>. If they don't
>   >     currently run on GNU, at least it probably isn't hard to adapt them
>   >     to run on GNU."
>
> Yes
>
>   > to
>
>   >   * The program must run under  GNU <https://www.gnu.org/> or some of
>   >     its free GNU/Linux distributions
>   >     <https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html>.
>
> Ok.  But maybe this:
>
>   > BSD is Unix-like. However, LibertyBSD is under evaluation
>   > (https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Incoming_distros). If it gets approved one
>   > day, should we extend the text to?:
>
>   >   * The program must run under  GNU <https://www.gnu.org/> or some of
>   >     its free GNU/Linux distributions
>   >     <https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html>, or a free BSD
>   >     operating sytem because probably isn't hard to adapt them to run on 
> GNU.
>
> No.  Our goal is to list programs that run on the GNU system, in any
> free variant.  We should not spread the focus to include anything
> else.
>