From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: "Raghav \"RG\" Gururajan" <rg@mail.raghavgururajan.net>
Cc: 34399@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34399: gnome-online-accounts recommends non-free software/service
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 15:09:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87va1tt5o7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2zq895hJo11nLuSkRQ0RYFr_3Z9Qu2VLk4x0HydlCgVaD7P4CCcPsU7MACAQpaHCbZ_t1JYO-iG7lc7sl4rGjBxPrBtw7nggOn4y2rYdmAE=@mail.raghavgururajan.net> (Raghav Gururajan's message of "Sat, 09 Feb 2019 06:31:52 +0000")
Hello,
"Raghav \"RG\" Gururajan" <rg@mail.raghavgururajan.net> skribis:
> I just found out in my GuixSD that gnome-online-accounts in system settings is showing options for Google, Facebook, etc.
gnome-online-accounts provides options for the services you mention; it
does not refer to non-free software, though.
The notion of “non-free” cannot be applied to a service. A service
might be SaaSS (“service as a software substitute” as RMS puts it), but
that’s not the case here because gnome-online-accounts runs locally and
interacts with the services via HTTP.
Of course these services are a serious threat to user privacy. However,
Guix is committed to the FSDG and in that context there is no valid
reason to exclude or modify gnome-online-accounts in Guix.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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2019-02-09 6:31 bug#34399: gnome-online-accounts recommends non-free software/service Raghav "RG" Gururajan
2019-02-09 14:09 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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