On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 05:29:12PM +0100, Iain Lane wrote: > I don't understand this. What about Twitter clients[0], YouTube > clients[1], Flickr clients[2], and probably clients for many other > non-free web services?[3]
If a piece of free software requires, for its essential function, some server-side software that's non-free, and there's no free alternatives, then I think that free software belongs in contrib. This is similar to a game that is free software requiring graphics or music that's non-free and has no free replacements: the game belongs in contrib. I agree this should be applied fairly across all of Debian. We have, for example, the translate-shell package, which seems to provide an interface to the Google Translate service (which is clearly non-free). It's in contrib. We also have get-ipleyer, which downloads some files from the BBC iPlayer service. It's in main. I think it should be in contrib. Possibly I am in a minority here? -- Schrödinger's backup hypothesis: the condition of any backup is undefined until a restore is attempted. -- andrewsh
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