Review/analyze "anti-features" for every working apps in the catalog

[alexAubin]

The goal would be to introduce flags similar to what the F-Droid catalog does for Android apps : https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/

The idea being that some apps, despite being free software may include "not cool" stuff such as:

• reliance on google fonts/services/..., or other third-party services (for example if I remember correctly Strut depending on Imgur),
• apps like Collabora/OnlyOffice include arbitrary limitations to X documents opened
• some apps have upstreams not being maintained anymore
• ...?

1. Building a list of anti-features tag, probably heavily inspired by F-Droid
2. Decide where tags should be encoded in Yunohost - naively I think they should be set in the apps.json : https://github.com/YunoHost/apps/blob/master/apps.json
3. For each working apps, review if the app fits any of the criteria defined in 1 (yup that's a huge work)

[alexAubin]

I'm flagging this a "Good first issue" because this doesn't require a huge amount of technical skill, and already doing this for just 5 - 10 apps would be great

[Aeris1One]

I think a starting list could be (inspired by FDroid one) :

• Tracking (the app has a telemetry/tracking system which is not opt-in)
• Non-free network (the app promotes or depends on a non-free network, e.g. frontends for Youtube, Instagram, etc.)
• Non-free addons (some addons provided directly from the app are non-free, e.g. Wordpress add-ons, Matomo paid services)
• Non-free dependencies (the app depends on non-free dependencies)
• Non-free media (the app uses non-free non-code files, e.g. Images, Videos, etc.) (Should most app's trademarked logo be taken into account ?)
• Known vulnerability
• Upstream not maintained since []
• Package not maintained since []
• Paid content (e.g. Matomo, Workpress (? since it provide by default Jetpack which has a paid plan))
• Arbitrary limitations (should be a way to specify those limitations in a user-readable way on the install page)

[tituspijean]

I think it's the occasion to add the "not-totally-free" tag too:

- id: not-free-upstream
  icon: lock
  title:
      en: "Not-totally-free upstream"
      fr: "Application sous licence libre restreinte"
  description:
      en: "The packaged app is under an overall free licence, but with clauses that restrict its use."

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Another point, F-Droid uses the libre to mean free as in beer and in speech. I would be open to use it too. We could amend my proposal above to rename it free-but-not-libre, for example.