The Free Software ethical label

The last news on 25 August 2024:
Creation of the label - certificate

Certified projects

List of projects certified in 2024 (current year).

None at the moment.

Presentation

The FusionEcosystem LABEL is a quality label for Free Software projects.
The goal is to have rules that give to the community all information on the project.

It forces interaction between the project and the community (like feature requests, changelog, news…)

“In the world where many companies create Open-source tools but the project is closed,
I wanted to create this label for the community to quickly recognize if a project is designed for and with the community”

David Durieux, August 26, 2024

THE RULES

Let us introduce you for the rules needed to obtain the certificate.

General
Free Software license

The products of the project must be under a free software license, so one of this list.

Link to code repository/repositories on homepage

The code repository/repositories link must be displayed in the first 400 pixels (height) of the homepage of the website.

Contacts

On the website, the information to contact members of the project must be displayed, and easy to find.

Website language

The website must be, at least, in english.

Fresh news

The website must have news, and, at least, one news item per quarter.

Changelog
Webpage

The project must have a public page with the changelog (can be on own website or on another website).

Link on the home page

On the homepage of the website, the link to the changelog must be displayed in the first 400 pixels (height).

Community requested features
Users

Any user can create a feature request.

List of features

The project must have a webpage with the list of feature requests (in any state).

Rejected feature

In case of a feature request is rejected, a reason MUST BE GIVEN.

Accepted reason

In case of the feature request is accepted, the version targeted must be defined.

Link on the home page

On the homepage of the website, the link to the feature requests list must be displayed in the first 400 pixels (height).

CVE
Webpage

The project must have a page with the list of CVEs of its products.

Link on the home page

On the homepage of the website, the link to the CVE list must be displayed in the first 400 pixels (height).

Documentation
Documentation

The project must have a documentation, at least, in HTML format.

Link on the home page

On the homepage of the website, the link to the documentation must be displayed in the first 400 pixels (height).

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