Le Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 01:47:29AM -0400, Scott Kitterman a écrit :
>
> I think the general rule for software with a FOSS license that has no other
> purpose than to interact with proprietary services is to put it in contrib.
Hi Scott and everybody,
I think that unfortunately there is no clea
Vincent Bernat writes:
> It was more to highlight that there is absolutely no consensus that
> interacting with proprietary services through the network is the same
> as combining work with a proprietary program.
Okay, and I think everyone here would agree those are not the same. So
I'm not sure
On Tuesday, August 08, 2017 07:34:47 AM Vincent Bernat wrote:
> ❦ 8 août 2017 09:31 +1000, Ben Finney :
> >> However, it is easy to find other packages interacting with
> >> proprietary services without a free implementation. For example, any
> >> package interacting with Google Cloud (golang-go
❦ 8 août 2017 09:31 +1000, Ben Finney :
>> However, it is easy to find other packages interacting with
>> proprietary services without a free implementation. For example, any
>> package interacting with Google Cloud (golang-google-cloud package).
>
> I am in agreement with Bas when he says: If
Hello,
On Mon, Aug 07 2017, Dr. Bas Wijnen wrote:
>> Example: [s3cmd]
>
> How is this not in contrib? This software is useless without the
> non-free service (which is also software, and it is not in main) from
> Amazon.
Using the service doesn't involve running any non-free code *on your
compu
Vincent Bernat writes:
> ❦ 7 août 2017 18:12 GMT, "Dr. Bas Wijnen" :
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> >> Example: [s3cmd]
> >
> > How is this not in contrib? This software is useless without the
> > non-free service (which is also software, and it is not in main)
> > from Amazon. Policy even mentions as an example for thi
On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 02:25:51AM +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote:
> The description of s3cmd is outdated. It's *not* useless without AWS.
> It can be used with self-hosted S3 protocol compatible service, such
> as Ceph RGW, minio[1]. Both are free softwares, and Ceph is in our
> main archive.
Ah, tha
❦ 7 août 2017 18:12 GMT, "Dr. Bas Wijnen" :
>> We have all kind of software advertising non-free services. Search for
>> "Google" or "Amazon". The comparison is even unfair as the service
>> advertised here is available as free software (not the case for most
>> services from Amazon and Google
On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 02:15:17PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> ❦ 4 août 2017 20:03 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard :
> > No, at worst this is misuse of Debian ressources for commercial gain -
> > i.e. using long description field for advertising a non-free service.
>
> We have all kind of software
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