[Replicant] fdroid on replicant: dfsg changes

Simon Josefsson simon at josefsson.org
Mon Oct 24 12:00:59 UTC 2016


Brian Kemp <brian.kemp at gmail.com> writes:

> It's probably easier to run our own repo, instead of trying to fiddle
> with all these software switches.

Yeah, I agree.  Here is an idea.  Create a clean fdroid repo built on a
machine running a libre OS and a home-built free Android SDK instead of
binary-only downloaded SDK's -- ideally, all built in a reproducible way
-- and publish that together with a fork of fdroid that doesn't have the
features related to non-free software.

I haven't seen any OS's that compromise support for free and non-free
software that get FSF's blessing.  As I understand it, Debian fails on
this aspect.

/Simon
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