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The rules for hosting packages on Savannah say that the package must not depend on any nonfree software. It turns out that this criterion is unclear. That is meant reject packages that need the user to install some nonfree software on per own computer and run it there. Running nonfree software means surrendering freedom, and we don't want Savannah packages to encourage users to do that. However, there is a different case which has arisen: where the package communicates with a service which is (or might be) implemented by nonfree software running on someone else's server. Morally speaking, that is a totally different issue. The service may be good, or it may be bad (a dis-service), but either way using the service does not mean you run nonfree software yourself. So I think the Savannah hosting rules need to be modified to say that the criterion is about nonfree software to be run on the user's own computers, and that it does not apply to communication with services run by other people or entities. Would someone like to work on a draft of this change? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
