[pserwylo]

> Addons are user choices, and trying to limit that choice is self defeating in free speech.

I believe you are talking about the big red boxes that mention it has "Non Free Addons". This is what is known as an "AntiFeature" in F-Droid [0]. It is not a reason to exclude a project from the main repository. Rather, it is purely a piece of metadata that is shown on the website and in the client to let people know that it is a thing.

The goal is to provide as much information as possible to users, so that they can make educated choices about which software they choose to install on their device.

[0] - https://f-droid.org/manual/html_node/AntiFeatures.html

[ubernostrum]

While I appreciate that there are people who do this, I also end up wondering where it'll end up. Debian, for example, has had to go round and round on whether the GNU FDL is actually sufficiently Free for Debian's guidelines. As I understand it, the current status is the FDL is considered non-DFSG-compatible by default, and exceptions are only available when it can be demonstrated that the FDL is used in a way that doesn't bring certain clauses into play.