Re: Replacement applications on nonfree systems

[David Hedlund]

I suggest you to edit
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Requirements
yourself Richard, it would save time for all of us.

On 2021-08-28 10:41, David Hedlund wrote:
> I don't understand. Can you please just give me some text to copy/paste?
>
> On 2021-08-28 05:01, Richard Stallman wrote:
>> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
>> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
>> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>>
>>   > 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.
>>