I had a discussion with the maintainer (@gsantner) of memetastic (Fdroid: non free asset flag · Issue #87 · gsantner/memetastic · GitHub) whether the app should be flagged or not.
The description of “Non free addon” is “This Antifeature is applied to apps that, although Free Software themselves, promote other non-Free applications or plugins.”
All non-free memes has been moved to a seperate github repo and are not included in the apk. They can be downloaded from github via the app.
Arguments for flagging:
The non-free memes are mentioned
In the second sentence of the description
In every screenshot in fdroid
In the “Download latest assests” popup in first start. This popup does not mention, that the memes and network service are non-free
Arguments against flagging:
The app itself does not contain non-free memes
The app can be used with own pictures or with the two prebundled free memes
The user does not have to download the non-free memes
So personally I have no idea if this warrants the Non-Free-Addon antifeature or not. Following the description of the antifeature it’s neither an app nor a plugin that get’s downloaded. But this is kind of hairsplitting.
Not sure. F-Droid is about free software, i.e. executable code. Here we talk about optional pictures pack, right? Looks like we don’t have a suitable anti-feature for this case.
Right. Maybe we can extend NonFreeAssets (“This Antifeature is applied to apps that contain and make use of non-free assets.”) to “This Antifeature is applied to apps that contain, make use of or promotes non-free assets.”?