Re: [directory-discuss] Random thought on fsd and wikidata

[Cédric Marie]

Hi,

> On 11/01/2018 10:13 AM, Laura Morales wrote:
> > Since data on the fsd seems mostly old and not very up to date...
> > I was wondering: does the fsd need to exist at all? Can't it be
> > merged into wikidata?
> > Wouldn't it be better to spend time on other projects than this?
> > For example, we could just add a new property to wikidata called
> > "fsf-verified" and I think this would pretty much do everything
> > the directory does.

I mostly agree with the initial remark, even if wikidata is not the 
solution to the problem.

I think that the content of FSD is quite redundant with what GNU/Linux 
distributions do.
Trusted distributions (I mean: 
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html) already check the license 
of the packages, and keep them up to date, because this is their main 
purpose, while the FSD has no vital need to keep them up to date, this 
is just for information.

I suppose that the problem is that FSF needs to have its own database, 
so I don't have any solution to propose either. I just agree that FSD 
sounds a little bit out of sync with reality of packages, and might not 
be used as a reference for that reason.


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Cédric