On 11/15/2015 06:50 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 09:04:29PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 11/12/2015 04:52 PM, kuLa wrote: >>> On 2015-11-12 15:58:03, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>>> As per the discussions during debconf, to be called "official", the >>>> images have to be built: >>>> - directly from an unmodified stable >>>> - with reproducibility on any Debian computer (ie: no need for any >>>> external infrastructure access) >>> >>> I don't think we reached any consensus in relation to the last point but I'm >>> not going to argue about it right now. >> >> There's IMO no consensus to have, unless we change the root of Debian >> (ie: the DFSG, and the fact that we do free software, and can build it >> in Debian). The need for an external infrastructure would make the >> images non-free. SaaS on a proprietary platform is as non-free as one >> can get. I don't anyone would say otherwise, would you? > > Personally, I disagree with the statement that "the need for external > infrastructure would make the images non-free". > > If a cloud platform does not make it possible to *import* images from an > external source,
AFAIK, they all do. If you can't upload a custom images, then it makes the cloud pretty much useless. Thomas
