On Fri, Aug 20 2021, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <gnu...@cyberdimension.org> wrote:
> The problematic applications were meant to enable users to download > Android applications from Google play. So while they were fully free > software, not all the applications from Google play are. > > And as I understand, we need to not have any of such applications > because the guidelines state that "Nor should the distribution refer to > third-party repositories that are not committed to only including free > software". This makes F-Droid's default repository selection a problem, but unless I'm missing something it doesn't make the program "F-Droid" a problem, provided it can be compiled to include acceptable repositories and exclude the problematic ones. Is there a reason Replicant doesn't want to just offer their own, better choice of a repository? Doing anything else seems like an enormous duplication of effort when there's an easier and equally free solution. (Apologies if there's an obvious answer to this question.) > The same question about which criteria to use also applies seems to the > FSF free software directory, especially on the page that lists Android > applications[1]. > > If we assume that: > - All the dependencies of a given applications are free software and > that all the dependencies of the dependencies are also free software. > - There is a free Android SDK that can build the application. We still > need to look at the SDKs from the android-rebuilds project to see if > it works and if it is fully free. Otherwise Replicant 4.2 had an SDK > that can probably still be used to build some of the applications. > - All that runs on a self-hosted FSDG distribution (like Trisquel or > Parabola). That all sounds reasonable to me. > If we manage to manually build the application, would it be ok to point > to the apk of the application if it was not built in the same way? > > If we use fdroidserver[6] from Guix, along with a free software > Android SDK to build the application, would it be ok to point to the > f-droid apk? Reproducibility isn't in the scope of the FSDG, so if I'm understanding everything correctly, I think that would be fine. Just my 2ยข. -g -- Greg Farough // Campaigns Manager Free Software Foundation Join the FSF and help us defend software freedom: https://my.fsf.org
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