Am Samstag, den 12.08.2017, 06:29 +0000 schrieb Dr. Bas Wijnen: > First of all, a clarification: This post (like most in this thread) > is > primarily about Debian's philosophy, not about certspotter (but I do > talk about > that at the end as well). For this reason, I'm not CC'ing the bug. > > On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 05:26:58PM -0400, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 08:03:09AM -0400, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > If a free software implementation of the remote service exists > > > that a > > > package can work with, then it can remain in main. If not, it > > > cannot. > > > > There are no free software server-side implementation of e.g. the > > ICQ > > protocol, as far as I know, but multiple client-side > > implementations in > > main. > > That is a bug as far as I'm concerned; a client designed purely (or > mostly) for > such a non-free service should not be in main.
A quick search on $SEARCHENGINE revealed me IServerd, which seems to be a FLOSS ICQ server implementation. (http://iserverd.khstu.ru/) Didnt investigate further than looking at the page, so no idea if it actually works. Its BSD though. > >
