Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-19 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi! Giovanni Biscuolo writes: [...] > first and foremost, IMHO guix-devel is not the place to discuss GNU FSDG > criteria; I'm going to subscribe gnu-linux-li...@nongnu.org to send > my comments - and I _have_ some - on the FSDG compliance process then I decided to "escalate" this issue since

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-16 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi guix-devel! this is my humble contribution to this discussion... (I'm not a Guix maintainer) first and foremost, IMHO guix-devel is not the place to discuss GNU FSDG criteria; I'm going to subscribe gnu-linux-li...@nongnu.org to send my comments - and I _have_ some - on the FSDG compliance pro

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-16 Thread znavko
Hello, bill! Thanks for your clarifications! Really, is it possible to make chromium free software? Also, FSF free software directory can divide packages by criteria like 1) Totally free GNU - open-source and free license GPL 2) Totally free nonGNU - - open-source and free license non-GPL 3) Totall

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-16 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, ezt írta (időpont: 2019. febr. 16., Szo, 13:56): > > I think it's unreasonable to assume that everyone involved in GNU Distros > reads and participates in gnu-linux-li...@nongnu.org discussions. You have > a limited amount of time for projects, and this other mailinglist, when I > used to

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-16 Thread ng0
I think it's unreasonable to assume that everyone involved in GNU Distros reads and participates in gnu-linux-li...@nongnu.org discussions. You have a limited amount of time for projects, and this other mailinglist, when I used to follow it has lots of discussions not related to Guix. So please don

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-16 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, bill-auger ezt írta (időpont: 2019. febr. 16., Szo, 9:01): > it is not clear to *anyone* precisely what the licensing problems are - > not even the upstream developers have been able to confirm or deny them > with any certainty - that is the very reason why this ugly situation has > been

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-16 Thread Brett Gilio
bill-auger writes: > On Mon, 04 Feb 2019 23:34:45 +0100 Ludovic wrote: >> It’s not entirely clear to me what the problems are, to be honest. > > On Wed, 06 Feb 2019 22:04:59 +0100 Marius wrote: >> Indeed, the only real breakthrough is that we now have a script to >> create an Ungooglified sour

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-16 Thread bill-auger
On Mon, 04 Feb 2019 23:34:45 +0100 Ludovic wrote: > It’s not entirely clear to me what the problems are, to be honest. On Wed, 06 Feb 2019 22:04:59 +0100 Marius wrote: > Indeed, the only real breakthrough is that we now have a script to > create an Ungooglified source tarball with all unnecessar

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-07 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi bill-auger, > > bill-auger skribis: > >> re: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-02/msg9.html >> >> i would like to remind readers of the guix-devel list that it was >> discussed some months ago, why no FSDG distros currently distribute >> chromium[

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi bill-auger, bill-auger skribis: > re: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-02/msg9.html > > i would like to remind readers of the guix-devel list that it was > discussed some months ago, why no FSDG distros currently distribute > chromium[1] - it appeared at that time, that

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-03 Thread brettg
As always, I second Bill here. There is a lot of history behind the Chromium project that I think many of us are aware of. There, to my knowledge, remains to be a complete audit of the Chromium source. Such an audit is crucial for us to even know what is problematic and what is not when it come

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-03 Thread bill-auger
re: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-02/msg9.html i would like to remind readers of the guix-devel list that it was discussed some months ago, why no FSDG distros currently distribute chromium[1] - it appeared at that time, that most people in that discussion were in agreemen

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-03 Thread Amin Bandali
Hello Marius, Thanks for your work patching and packaging ungoogled-chromium! I haven’t had a chance to have a closer look at your patch, but would you mind elaborating on the “* Free software only.” part of your stated feature-set and if/how it addresses licensing concerns raised previously e.g.

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-03 Thread Joshua Branson
Marius Bakke writes: > Thanks to Marks beautiful "computed-origin-method", Ungoogled-Chromium > is finally ready for inclusion in Guix. > > Features: > * Chromium 72. > * No unsolicited network traffic. > * Free software only. > * No DRM. > * Not an April Fools joke. Ahh man. I was really hopin