There is a difference between ignoring proprietary software, and providing
installation methods for it in the distro. It is against the first of the Four
Foundations, Freedom, to include these repositories. It's one thing if the user
seeks out the software and installs it themselves, it's another if we're
baiting them into installing software that does not provide the four Essential
Freedoms.
Not only that, but we can make no guarantee as to the state of these repos or
the state of the software, as it is proprietary. This is also a potential issue
for Fedora Legal.
On October 15, 2019 5:00:37 PM UTC, Przemek Klosowski via devel
<devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>On 10/14/19 6:19 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote:
>>> John, the third-party software policy was approved after a long and
>>> contentious debate:
>>>
>>>
>https://gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpagure.io%2FFedora-Council%2Ftickets%2Fissue%2F121&data=02%7C01%7Cprzemek.klosowski%40nist.gov%7Cb6880a9e2cb041668b5508d7509033d6%7C2ab5d82fd8fa4797a93e054655c61dec%7C1%7C1%7C637066452583661821&sdata=%2BJLzyHYQO1Oh5yBaRTF9AxAhX9ZD2tQOldCoBBtieRE%3D&reserved=0
>> That policy is still completely at odds with the Fedora objectives.
>> Recommending proprietary software is entirely incompatible with the
>Freedom
>> goal and actively works against it. So this policy needs to be
>revisited to
>> exclude proprietary software or repealed entirely.
>>
>It's a difficult choice. My understanding is that Fedora does not
>'recommend' proprietary software, but rather allows it to be found, in
>response to people searching for it by either specific terms (package
>name) or specific functionality.
>
>Are you arguing that the only choice compatible with Fedora principles
>is to ignore the existence of proprietary software? I think this would
>be contrary to the interests of the users. Speaking for myself, when
>people ask me about image editing software, I say that I recommend the
>FOSS product GIMP, but that there is also an excellent proprietary
>Photoshop. I am not comfortable just mentioning one to the exclusion of
>
>the other.
>
>I think the overall goal for FOSS software is to be technically
>excellent and compete successfully with proprietary software. Ignoring
>non-FOSS software is actually counterproductive to that goal.
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