Ben Finney writes ("Re: Bug#874295: Not a bug"):
> Thomas Pierson writes:
> > It's only if a user want to connect to a particular external service
> > that a plugin file is downloaded and used.
>
> That is still a problem, IMO. It would be best if the program did not do
> that, and instead prompt
This mail is going to a lot of lists. I have set the followups to
d-policy because ultimately this is hopefully going to result in a
change to policy.
Over the years, d-legal has discussed a number of packages which
automatically download non-free software, under some circumstances.
The obvious
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 01:52:18PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I would like to establish a way to prevent this.
Why would the project do that, though?
> (There are even whole Debian derivatives who have as one of their
> primary goals, preventing this.
Good.
> We should aim for most of the chang
Ian Jackson writes:
> Ben Finney writes ("Re: Bug#874295: Not a bug"):
> > (Yes, I think a web browser should not download and execute
> > arbitrary JavaScript either. That one problem remains unaddressed is
> > not a justification for the same problem elsewhere.)
>
> This is obviously out of sco
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 01:52:18PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Over the years, d-legal has discussed a number of packages which
> automatically download non-free software, under some circumstances.
>
> The obvious example is web browsers with extension repositories
> containing both free and non-f
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