[Dev] [PATCH] Iceweasl 77.0.1 update

bill-auger bill-auger at peers.community
Fri Jun 26 23:33:20 GMT 2020


On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 22:45:32 +0100 dllud wrote:
> It seems that is stretching the FSDG wording a bit too far.
> Practically speaking, if you're suggesting an iOS app, I can
> see a conflict. On the other hand, if you're suggesting an
> Android app that runs on Replicant[1], I would deem it ok.  

yes, that was a bit of an exaggeration; but not much - "99%" was
being generous, in reality - if there is any legitimate use-case
in which some software can be used in 100% freedom, then it would
not conflict with the FSDG, strictly-speaking


On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 22:45:32 +0100 dllud wrote:
> Actually, in light of the FSDG, F-Droid is not acceptable[2].
> It distributes some apps that:
> - promote non-free software;
> - depend on non-free software;  

ok, that i did not know - but now that concern reduces to:
f-droid, apple, and google app-stores are all prohibited by the
FSDG, and those are the only ones that exist for phone software,
yes? - so we can not recommend getting any phone software from
any service, even if the phone OS were 100% free like replicant


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