Re: Criteria for Android applications

[David Hedlund]

On 2021-08-20 22:04, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The Free software directory is adding Android applications[1], so it
> would be interesting to see under which criteria Android applications
> could be added.
>
> Replicant, which is supposed to follow the Free System Distribution
> Guidelines (FSDG)[2][3], is also very interested in knowing which
> applications that are not part of the Replicant source code it could
> promote, point to, and/or distribute.
>
> In the previous Replicant versions we shipped f-droid. At some point we
> found proof that the f-droid repositories contained several
> applications that are problematic.

Denis, I linked to
https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/F-DroidAndApplications#FSDG-compliant
in https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:Replicant#F-Droid_disclaimer

I think it would be useful if
https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/F-DroidAndApplications
linked back to https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:Replicant
because 1) About half of the apps run on GNU/Linux distros 2) they are
easy to use 3) they are popular.


https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:Replicant might be a good
collection for the Replicant project wish to set up a first
FSDG-compliant mini-repository. For starters, it would be nice if those
apps were either approved or rejected in

https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/F-DroidAndApplications#FSDG-compliant

https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/F-DroidAndApplications#Not-compliant
-- then we can simply remove these apps from
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:Replicant


> References:
> -----------
> [1]https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:Replicant
> [2]https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
> [3]https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-non-gnu-distros.html
>
> Denis.