Category talk:Software by type

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Category:Software by domain

See also: Commons:Categories for discussion/2018/10/Category:Software logos by role.

Can we either merge Category:Software by domain with Category:Software by type, or come up with a clear category description that explains the difference? Thanks! Themightyquill (talk) 19:28, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

I support a rename, but I think both could be combined into a new category, Category:Software by purpose. I don't think the subcats in either of them describe software types. --Auntof6 (talk) 06:54, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

@Auntof6: For the most part, that sounds fine, though I don't think Category:Free software, Category:Historical software, or Category:Scripts fit in "Software by purpose". I'm also unsure if Category:Web software or Category:Application software do. - Themightyquill (talk) 07:00, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

@Themightyquill: You're right: those could remain under "by type". --Auntof6 (talk) 07:16, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Technically, "free software" could fit under "Software by license" like en:Category:Software by license, if we wanted to go to that effort. But I guess for obvious reasons, most (all?) of the software we have images of is free software. I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. - Themightyquill (talk) 07:41, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

I'm not really sure "free software" is a type of license. Let alone a software domain or software purpose (whatever that means). somewhat related to that, there's currently Category:Ransomware. Although there doesn't seem to be anything like Category:Paid software, but one possible route could be to create something like Category:Software by monetization method that Category:Ransomware, and a category like Category:Paid software could go into. Then en:Category:Software by license could be confined to categories for software based on the actual type of license that they are under, like BSD or whatever. I'll probably do that eventually if no one has any objections and my brain doesn't tard out about it in the meanwhile. More specific to this I would just change it to Category:Software by subject or just go with Category:Software by type. But then, what is a "type" of software? Either way, for whatever reason creating categories in Commons based on how Wikipedia has things categorized rarely seems to work and there's zero point in over complicate things by sorting media related to software by the target subject area of a computer program in the meantime. Just for the unware, as far as I know a software domain is the real-world context in which you're attempting to solve a problem using said software, which for many reasons isn't a usable categorization criteria. --Adamant1 (talk) 09:38, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

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Closed, category kept as in use. No consensus to make any specific change; stale discussion. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 22:17, 14 November 2023 (UTC)