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 @organicmaps not for the first time: @fdroidorg is a, very, opinionated build service for users that are ideologically aligned with them (think RMS). If they want to run that and there's a user base that wants to use it, more power to them. BUT assuming that it is a general purpose app store is just going to lead to endless conflict on both sides. Unluckily F-Droid is not clear about that -they- are publishing the apps and are responsible for the content and operations, not the app devs. ... 2 comments
@simon @organicmaps @fdroidorg I could write my own modified peertube which injects media with exploits. My peertube server running free software doesn't help the user. This is why tagging with an anti-feature because "the data comes from youtube" is not helpful and just displays prejudice against apps developed for people who want to watch videos hosted on youtube. Whether youtube can be self-hosted with FOSS is irrelevant. The user is just accessing the data, not producing or serving it. |
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@simon @organicmaps @fdroidorg I don't think even RMS would agree. For him there is no meaningful distinction between proprietary and free software when it is running on other people's computers over the network. He would be more concerned with non-free javascript running in your browser than with yt-dlp talking to youtube. He would be happy to have free software to do his tax returns. But it seems f-droid would consider that software as having the "anti-feature" of talking to the IRS.