Hans-Christoph, On 28 September 2017 at 15:29, Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@eds.org> wrote: > As far as I know, there is no restriction on moving this package to > non-free right now. It clearly does not meet the criteria for being in > main: > > * grip requires GitHub's proprietary API to do anything useful > * without the proprietary service, grip is useless > > Either non-free or contrib works for this, in my opinion. I don't really > care which, just not main.
Yes, there is a restriction: software should not be moved to contrib/non-free because some wants, but because they are not DFSG-compliant[1][2]. As far as we can tell, grip is indeed free software, released under MIT/Expat license[3]. It can even be used without GitHub.com, specifying the URL of a GitHub Enterprise instance[4]. And yes, if you have a free implementation of the GitHub API, you can point it to your own server. If you want to argue that maybe there are no free implementations of the GitHub API, this is not grip's fault. Even then, if you don't agree with this relationship between free software and proprietary services, you should be discussing the matter with the people on the previous mentioned thread[5], who are interested in this matter, not with me in this bug report. As you said, this is *your* opinion and, will all due respect, it's not stronger or more important than the people on debian-mentors mailing list or the FTP masters who reviewed the package before it entered the archive, accepting it in the main section. Regards, Tiago. [1]: https://www.debian.org/social_contract [2]: https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#Component [3]: https://github.com/joeyespo/grip/blob/bae3d0a/LICENSE [4]: https://github.com/joeyespo/grip/tree/bae3d0a#configuration [5]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/08/msg00306.html -- Tiago "Myhro" Ilieve Blog: https://blog.myhro.info/ GitHub: https://github.com/myhro LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/myhro Berlin, Deutschland
