Riley Baird (Orthogonal) asked: > What do we need to evaluate/discuss before it is accepted?
I go use it, look it over, see what packages they have and if there is any low-hanging fruit like stuff mentioned in [0]. Grabbing the source code for packages and auditing them is also needed - looking for things that might be a problem, like non-free things that may be accidentally included or other stuff that goes against the FSF's guidelines [1]. It's usually quite a bit of work to comb through everything so I use software tools like FOSSology [2] to help with it. Automated license analysis is not perfect but it at least helps to figure out that which is very clearly free software and that which needs further investigation. [0] http://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines [1] https://gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html [2] http://fossology.org