Do F-Droid maintainers read the code before making the app?

What’s the point of the question?

Why not just say

The main policy is: be OSS

Or what is the difference between OSS and FOSS here?

I’ve said before IMO “Free” was a poor word choice

but what good does it do tacking the F onto OSS?

Not all the software at F-Droid is Free Software, but it is all OSS. So I think the acronym FOSS confuses.

I understand “FOSS” has been used at F-Droid since 2010 or 2011.