From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: About flashplayer Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 10:53:34 +0100 Message-ID: <87bmvb70bl.fsf@elephly.net> References: <3a5b8cc7.233a.1599585bfbb.Coremail.tumashu@163.com> <87ziivbg4a.fsf@gmail.com> <23243522.7414.15996a65b34.Coremail.tumashu@163.com> <20170113083146.GA19159@jocasta.intra> <794e4850.945d.15996f9f2a3.Coremail.tumashu@163.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59759) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cRyYd-0003lY-Jn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2017 04:54:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cRyYZ-000725-IU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2017 04:54:03 -0500 Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.163]:21088) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cRyYZ-00071T-9m for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2017 04:53:59 -0500 In-reply-to: <794e4850.945d.15996f9f2a3.Coremail.tumashu@163.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: tumashu Cc: guix tumashu writes: > At 2017-01-13 16:31:46, "John Darrington" wrote: >On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 03:06:41PM +0800, tumashu wrote: > > If we can package Adobe Flash Player, can we package a installer-helper, like: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/flashplugin-nonfree > >But as Chris said, unfortunately we cannot. :( > > but ..... > > https://packages.debian.org/stretch/flashplugin-nonfree is just a command writen with shell script, user can use this command to download Adobe Flash Player and install it, it seem to be a free script :-) The FSDG (as previously quoted by Chris) state: "A free system distribution must not steer users towards obtaining any nonfree information for practical use, or encourage them to do so. The system should have no repositories for nonfree software and no specific recipes for installation of particular nonfree programs." Providing a tool with the sole purpose of installing proprietory software would certainly fall under “steer users towards obtaining […] nonfree” software. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC http://elephly.net