AntennaPod mislabeled as NonFreeNet or NonFreeNet wording is misleading

It has come to my knowledge that AntennaPod has been labeled as NonFreeNet, due to its inclusion of iTunes search support, which must be a mistake for any reasonable interpretation of the description of that anti-feature.

While it is true that the app does include functionality to search for podcasts using Apple's servers, that functionality is in no way necessary for obtaining full functionality out of the app. Subscriptions can be, and presumably often are, made by entering direct links to RSS feeds, opening RSS feeds through an android Intent or by importing an OPML list. Unless the user actively selects to use the search functionality, the servers with that API are never ever queried. Updating feeds, downloading episodes and playing them is without doubt the major use flow, and that can all be done without contacting other servers than the ones hosting each and every podcast. That can hardly be considered to depend entirely on, can it?

May I suggest that either the NonFreeNet label gets removed from AntennaPod, or the description of the label gets corrected to correspond to how it is currently being applied. That second option would of course involve going through the full wording, but the most central rephrasing should in that case be something along the lines of:

promote or depend entirely on use a Non-Free network service which is impossible, or not easy to replace.

I have been unable to find a paper trail leading up to the decision to add the label. Neither searching Issues nor Merge requests come up with any matches for antennapod. In order to help me understand the process, could someone please point to how the mislabeling made it into the meta data?