Re: Replacement applications on nonfree systems

[David Hedlund]

On 2021-08-23 05:42, Richard Stallman wrote:
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>   > Yes, that's how we should use those pages.
>   > However, we can review those replacement programs without giving them
>   > entries of their own.
>
>   How? If anyone look at the source they will not find any review notes 
>
> There is no need to publish the review notes.  That is extra work.


Thanks, I added "we don't review single-platform free software for
proprietary operating systems. If anyone look at the source they will
not find any review notes. There is no need to publish the review notes.
That is extra work." to
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Requirements



>   >  What do you think about that by the way, a License column?
>
> It would not be wrong to state that info, but it would be unnecessary
> extra work.  Better if we don't/
>
> Listing information about programs for use on Windows, etc, is not the
> main goal of the directory.  So please don't propose ways to do extra
> work and "do a better job".  It does a good enough job now.  Let's
> aim to make it less work, instead.
>
>   > To verify that the license is free and to avoid adding programs with
>   > nonfree software dependencies by mistake (as Adonay pointed out earlier).
>
> Are you talking about putting these comments the directory pages that
> the public can see?  If so, that approach has a big problem: is that
> it assumes people are posting the names of "replacement" programs
> before checking they are valid to list.
>
> Or at least, that's how it seems to me.  Did I misunderstand that
> plan, somehow?
>
> We should weed out invalid replacement programs _before_ they get into
> the published version of the pages.
>