bug#34565: ungoogled-chromium might contain remnants of Widevine DRM

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Jason Self <j@jxself.org> writes:

> Leo Famulari wrote:
>> To clarify this general point about Guix for anyone who is reading
>> along, as a matter of policy the end user does not receive non-free
>> source code from Guix.
>
> Right; the source is downloaded from commondatastorage.googleapis.com
> but that is a technicality. What I'm saying is that the recipe should
> be updated to cause it to download an already-cleaned up version
> directly from Guix (it could be hosted somewhere on gnu.org for example
> but exactly where can be up for negotiation) and that this excuse of
> "they're getting it elsewhere" shouldn't be usable as an excuse to
> sidestep the FSDG. It's still causing the user to download the software
> due to the recipes provided by Guix.

Please do not claim that Guix sidesteps or aims to sidestep the FSDG.
This is not the case as we are committed to abiding by the FSDG.

What users get when using “guix build --source” is the processed source
code from the Guix build farm.  The fallback is to fetch the original
sources directly and process them (which is what the build farm does as
well).

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Ricardo