Community built
This app is developed in the open by a community of volunteers, and released under…
for every app that is freely licensed?
I like the intention, but it’s sometimes not really true. For instance https://flathub.org/apps/org.mozilla.firefox is mostly developed by paid Mozilla employees. Many free software projects are not really built by communities of volunteers but by employees of a corporation, even if they accept volunteer contributions. Or by a single benevolent dictator maintainer who does mostly everything alone.
Maybe there should be a toggle in the metadata for each app to activate the “community built” message. In the other case, the block would remain the same, but with a simpler message such as:
Freely licensed
This app can be used, shared and modified freely under…
and without the people icon above it. Basically, two different versions of the free software block.
It seems that Flathub writes:
for every app that is freely licensed?
I like the intention, but it’s sometimes not really true. For instance https://flathub.org/apps/org.mozilla.firefox is mostly developed by paid Mozilla employees. Many free software projects are not really built by communities of volunteers but by employees of a corporation, even if they accept volunteer contributions. Or by a single benevolent dictator maintainer who does mostly everything alone.
Maybe there should be a toggle in the metadata for each app to activate the “community built” message. In the other case, the block would remain the same, but with a simpler message such as:
and without the people icon above it. Basically, two different versions of the free software block.