[Replicant] Interested in contributing to Replicant

Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli GNUtoo at no-log.org
Fri Aug 19 13:13:17 UTC 2016


On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:50:08 +0200
David Hedlund <public at beloved.name> wrote:

> > Specifications and source code:
> > -------------------------------
> > The FSDG guidelines[3] requires Replicant not to promote non-free
> > software. Practically speaking we ship f-droid which has in its
> > repositories software that do.
> > A good example is the Firefox application which, in its add-on
> > manager, has non-free software.  
> 
> 
> This is not true. Only IceCat have a add-on repository that only
> contains free software: http://trisquel.info/browser
I was specifically talking about firefox[1], not IceCat[2].

Firefox was an example among others. Since it is now deprecated, it
will probably be removed at some point.
Some other application probably still depend on or promote non-free
software somehow.

References:
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[1]https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=firefox&fdid=org.mozilla.firefox
[2]https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=icecat&fdid=org.gnu.icecat

Denis.
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