Generic F-droid warning about a network related "Anti-Feature" #5756
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It complains that OpenStreetMap editor can be used only for editing OpenStreetMap. This is in my opinion really pointless and gave feedback to them about it at some point. We do not control fdroid |
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Yes, that Note that all antifeatures in F-droid are intended as useful pointers for end user to make an informed choice that suits them the most; so it is about easy transparency. There are not "warnings". They are not about how good/bad/moral software is (that is left to user discretion; otherwise there would be hundred different opinions what F-droid should mark as good/bad1 All software that is distributed on F-droid is always fully FOSS, so if whether the client you're installing is free software / open source is only thing you care about, you can ignore all antifeature flags. There is F-droid work to split it into two separate Antifeatures, one of which (original
Current antifeature details text for StreetComplete is "Tethered to commercial Jawg.io for map tiles, FOSS OpenStreetMap.org and Westnordost.de to get quests, upload data, etc." So idea is to be fully transparent to the user with short but succinct details. If you are fine with those above, you're good, enjoy the app! If you dislike some of those (e.g. perhaps you are totally anti-commercial and want to use some other vector tile provider than Jawg, or your country is being blocked by Germany servers and you are huge user of picture notes, or whatever), those should provide you with enough data to make informed choice. IOW, F-Droid requires users to think for themselves what is acceptable to them; it does not serve them one-size-fits-all morality on a plate ready for consumption. (One might like that approach or not, of course, depending where they land on choice-vs-prechewed preference scale. I personally tend toward "choice" end)
Yes, That is quite unfortunate: extra explanations for antifeatures (part of Footnotes
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The F-Droid page for StreetComplete currently complains about a very vague "Anti-Feature":
Does anyone know what this is?
It seems like really bad behaviour on their part to make such a broad "warning" without giving any way to see what the problem supposedly is (that I can see at least).
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