Free Software Directory:Antifeatures

Merge from Free System Distribution Guidelines (GNU FSDG) and software categories.

This page can be used by people to exclude software in these categories, or inform their developers to understand that they have this warning label so they can be improved.

Antifeatures are flags applied to applications to warn of behaviour that may be undesirable from the user's perspective. Frequently it is behaviour that benefits the developer or third party, but that the end user of the software would prefer not to be there.

The Free Software Directory (FSD) notify you when viewing the details of an app with one or more of these Antifeatures.

• All free software with antifeatures (0 listed):
  • Adware (0 listed) – the application contains advertising.
  • Free fork needed! (0 listed) – the developer has betrayed the community by moving to a proprietary license, but people can continue to use and fork the last free version.
  • Software Known to have Grave Flaws (0 listed) – Software that fails to fully do the job that it says it does.
  • Software Names with Words to Avoid (0 listed) – Software named with Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing.

The numbers indicate how many apps in the main FSD repository have each antifeature, and you can click through to see them all.

Adding new software to antifeature categories

Software Names with Words to Avoid

To find packages that include the term "linux" in controversial settings use:

sudo apt-cache search --names-only linux | cut -f1 -d " " | grep linux | grep -v "\-gnu" | grep -v "linux\-cloud\-tools" | grep -v "linux\-generic" | grep -v "linux\-headers" | grep -v "linux\-image" | grep -v "linux\-lowlatency" | grep -v "linux\-lts" | grep -v "linux\-tools" | grep -v "selinux" | sort > linux-named.txt

Trisquel 7 help for this issue have been added to: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/directory-discuss/2016-11/msg00068.html