David Craven <da...@craven.ch> writes:

> Quoting FSDG:
> A free system distribution must not steer users towards obtaining any
> nonfree information for practical use, or encourage them to do so.
>
> We are not steering or encouraging users to do any thing by displaying
> the source url of the tarball, 

That's an interpretation of it.  I think that point deserves a
discussion on <gnu-linux-li...@nongnu.org> mailing list, before
including such change in Guix UI.

For some background on the 'guix build --source' issue, Please read the
full thread on
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2013-09/msg00001.html.

>we are merely providing factual non-opinionated information.

IMO, Distributing software is always opinionated.  :)

-- 
Mathieu Lirzin

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