[Replicant] fdroid on replicant: dfsg changes

Mon Aug 22 18:15:53 UTC 2016

Simon Josefsson:
> Den Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:00:10 +0200
> skrev Re: [Replicant] Interested in contributing to Replicant:
> 
>> Suggested fix:
>> --------------
> ...
>> The idea is to:
>> - make F-droid detect Replicant
>> - Add a way to totally hide applications.
>> - Make f-droid hide all applications with anti-features, if running on
>>   Replicant.
>>   Hiding all the applications with an anti-feature is sufficient, even
>>   if ideally we could only hide the anti-features conflicting with the
>>   FSDG[3] guidelines.
>>   Having a more fine grained filter could be implemented later, as
>>   right now meeting the FSDG again is Replicant's top priority.
> 
> This could be too heavy handed.  For me, this would make it impossible
> to install Face Slim, OsmAnd, Telegram.  Of these three, only the OsmAnd
> appear to actually have a licensing issue.
> 
> However, I could live with the solution above if it means having
> Replicant a FSF endorsed free distro.
> 
> Another solution is to simply not include fdroid in replicant?!  I'm
> pretty sure everyone who is able to install Replicant is able to
> install fdroid manually if they so choses.  This approach does not
> require any changes at all in the fdroid project, and would solve
> things quicker.  What do you think?
> 
> /Simon

All we are talking about is setting a preference on by default on
Replicant.  So when F-Droid is built into Replicant, it will turn on the
pref that hides non-free things.  Replicant users will still be free to
go into their preferences and enable non-free things.  This is like
Debian contrib and non-free.  Free Software is about freedom, including
the freedom to use non-free software if you must ;-).

There are large security and usability advantages to including F-Droid
in Replicant now that we have nailed down the F-Droid Privileged
Extension.  That said, the Privileged Extension is ready to be
integrated into ROMs, as of v0.2, so we're ready to help you do that
whenever you're ready.

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/privileged-extension

.hc

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