Re: Replacement applications on nonfree systems

[Ron Nazarov]

On Sat, 2021-09-04 at 21:09 +0200, David Hedlund wrote:
> 
> 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.
> > 
> 
> 
> I added this to 
> https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Requirements#Free_programs
> 
> The program must run under the GNU operating system or any free
> variant of the GNU systems like GNU/Linux, for example GNU Guidelines
> for Free System Distributions (GFSD) commitment GNU/Linux
> distributions. We import package data from the Debian main
> repository. Even if a free program runs on BSD or Android (or
> Replicant which is GNU GFSD compliant), but not GNU or GNU/Linux, we
> don't add it. Also, if they don't currently run on GNU, at least it
> probably isn't hard to adapt them to run on GNU.
> 
It should be "Free System Distribution Guidelines (FSDG)", not
"Guidelines for Free System Distributions (GFSD)". I have corrected
this.
> 
> Richard, please modify the text or approve it.
> 
>

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