the "maven" question illuminates an important distinction between the FSDG and the FSD - i think that the answer would be different for each - for one thing, the FSDG criteria is far more extensive - i dont believe that any FSD criteria relates to foreign repositories where other non-free software may be found in proximity
the FSD is not an "app store", where to download and install binaries - the FSD should only list software for which source code is available, and always present the source code - it should not have any concern for binaries, who compiled them, nor from which repos they can be retrieved, nor if any such repos exist distros, other other hand, generally compile and distribute binaries, so issues such as "who compiled it?" and "who signed it?" are relevant, where they ae not relevant on the FSD in other words, with the FSDG, the burden of ensuring that the software compiles and is useful on a 100% libre system (all sources are available, dependencies are satisfiable, etc) is upon the distro maintainers - whereas with the FSD, only the upstream code is under scrutiny, and probably only it's licensing - i dont know that the FSD reviewers are responsible for verifying that the software can actually be compiled/installed in freedom, only that it does _something_ categorical to justify inclusion in the directory _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
