From: Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net>
To: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Emms and youtube-dl
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 21:09:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yo1o6xt.fsf@rabkins.net> (raw)
Hello all,
Emms is a multimedia player for Emacs available via GNU ELPA
(https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/log/?h=externals/emms)
Someone is offering to add code to Emms which supports
youtube-dl/ytdl. The FSF has a post about those programs here and
youtube generally here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.en.html
Initially, I rejected the code because I thought that youtube-dl runs
non-free javascript. But that FSF article says it does not. But still
the other reasons in the article, mainly that youtube-dl is a fragile
web-scraping kludge to access a resource which isn't committed to free
access, I am hesitant to add the code.
I would much rather code which supports freedom-respecting video sites
exclusively (if such sites exist, I don't know, it isn't something I
look for.)
I wanted to know if Emacs at-large had a policy here, or if you can
provide insight.
Thank you.
--
"Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
next reply other threads:[~2022-03-26 1:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-26 1:09 Yoni Rabkin [this message]
2022-03-27 5:28 ` Emms and youtube-dl Richard Stallman
2022-03-27 6:46 ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2022-03-28 4:17 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-28 19:54 ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2022-03-29 3:29 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-31 18:23 ` Stefan Monnier
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