It's probably best to continue this discussion on the issue tracker[1][2][3]. I updated the issues and some the information there already contradicts some of what I wrote below due to new findings.
Best regards, Wolfgang [1] https://redmine.replicant.us/issues/1629 [2] https://redmine.replicant.us/issues/1635 [3] https://redmine.replicant.us/issues/1647 Wolfgang Wiedmeyer writes: > Wolfgang Wiedmeyer writes: > >> Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli writes: >> >>> On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 00:01:37 +0100 >>> - Would it also be possible to fix the FSDG compliance by: >>> - Making a script to filter out non-fsdg compliant f-droid packages, >>> by filtering out packages with anti-features >>> - Asking f-droid people to maintain a separate repository for >>> Replicant without the packages with anti-features. >>> - Asking f-droid people to use that separate repository on Replicant >>> (they can probably detect that the Android distribution running is >>> Replicant). >>> This would fix the Replicant FSDG compliance issue, and not get >>> Replicant unlisted from the list of fully free (Android) >>> distributions. >> >> I need to look into this. At the OHSW workshop, we tried to build >> F-Droid using the Debian Android SDK, so it would be possible to work on >> the app without the need to install the Google SDK (among other >> reasons). But we were not successful at the time. >> >> An important aspect should be how easy it is to update such a setup. If >> the F-Droid maintainers are willing to maintain such a separate >> repository, would it be easy to move new apps into the Replicant repo >> and newly found non-free apps out of the repo? >> >> Detecting Replicant in F-Droid and then applying changes is probably the >> only way to get these changes accepted in F-Droid. The script could be >> done by us and we update it ourselves. Considering all of this, why not >> create a blacklist that is easy to update? The blacklist is created by >> the script and called by F-Droid during parsing of the app list of the >> repo. >> >> We then only need to make merge requests to update the blacklist and >> otherwise help to improve their antifeature marks. >> >> I fear that by simply filtering out apps with antifeatures as it is >> currently planned in the upstream bug[1], too many are filtered that are >> actually free software. Having our own blacklist would mean a lot more >> flexibility when it comes to deciding which apps should be hidden. > > Now that I have gone through the issue, I think that the blacklist is > not a good idea. It actually doesn't look that complicated. We need to > submit a change to their website repo[1] that at least clarifies the > NonFreeAssets anti-feature and possibly the ads and tracking > anti-features. > > Then we need to implement a feature for the F-Droid client that filters > out all the anti-features that are not FSDG-compliant and the feature > needs to be enabled when Replicant is detected. For now, it looks like these > non-FSDG-compliant features are NonFreeDep and NonFreeAdd. As you > already wrote in the issue[2], the other anti-features can probably be > categorized as informational or annoyances. I don't know yet if there is > already code in the F-Droid client that allows to filter for specific > anti-features. I only know that it has a setting that allows to grey out > all apps with anti-features. > > I think it's a bad idea to filter all apps with anti-features. This is > just too broad. And even if it would solve the FSDG-compliance issue for > now, in practice users would just try to find ways to circumvent this > restriction, so it would have little actual effect. I would include > myself in this group of users. > > But of course, we still need to verify if certain apps are correctly > tagged with anti-features. Emulators were such apps you mentioned. > > Best regards, > Wolfgang > > > [1] > https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroid-website/blob/master/_docs/Build_Metadata_Reference.md#AntiFeatures > [2] https://redmine.replicant.us/issues/1629 > >> [1] https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/issues/564 -- Website: https://fossencdi.org OpenPGP: 0F30 D1A0 2F73 F70A 6FEE 048E 5816 A24C 1075 7FC4 Key download: https://wiedmeyer.de/keys/ww.asc
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