Re: Criteria for Android applications

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2021 02:50:19 +0200
David Hedlund <public@beloved.name> wrote:
> 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.
I've done that. Though we still need to add all the infos from the
"Criteria for Android applications" thread and all our discussion back
inside that Replicant wiki page. Feel free to modify it and/or to ping
us on IRC if you don't have wiki edition permissions yet.

> 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
As I understand from the thread we'd need to make sure that these
applications can be compiled and review the source code off all the
dependencies and the dependencies of the dependencies.

RepWiFi was made, probably with only free software, for Replicant by a
Replicant user who seems to know well Java, so it's probably the
easiest application to review.

It might even have been compiled on Replicant at some point. If we find
trace of that and that we double check that it had no other
dependencies it should be FSDG compliant.

On my side I also need to also get more familiar with the Free
Software Directory as I don't know (yet) what information can be added
on software. Though I'm familiar with the Wikidata project that also has
a similar goal (store statements about things in a database) but it has
a much broader scope.

Denis.

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