[libreplanet-discuss] F-Droid's Antifeatures

[Fabio Pesari]

F-Droid is great for finding libre Android programs, however I do have
an issue with their inclusion policy, and in particular their acceptance
of "Antifeatures":

https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Antifeatures

I disagree with all of those compromises (except "Upstream Non-free",
since they patch their version to be free) and I wouldn't want them in
software I run (especially because, in some cases like Ads and Tracking,
they could easily be stripped out).

To be fair, they do warn users, so there is little risk of an informed
free software user installing any of them, however those share the same
repository as the other programs and I don't think that's good for
promoting software freedom.

I think that at the very least, F-Droid should distribute the fully free
programs from their main repository and if they really want to offer
programs with "Antifeatures", they should be distributed from a separate
repository that must be manually enabled (or they could ask the users
during the first run). They already do it for the "Guardian Project"
repository and this wouldn't be much different.

What do you think about it?