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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Calibre phones home without asking, and offers to update itself
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:12:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oanjhc3s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874mpd9e8r.fsf_-_@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Sun, 22 Mar 2015 12:41:08 -0400")

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> This raises a few problems:
>
> * It's automatically phoning home on launch without my consent, which is
>   a breach of privacy.
>
> * I don't know exactly what would happen if I let it attempt to update
>   itself, but since upstream Calibre includes non-free software (unrar),
>   it's probably offering to install non-free software for me.
>
> We should disable this functionality in our Calibre package.

Agreed, both should be disabled.

Presumably the other free distros have a patch for that?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-23 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2015-03-22 16:41   ` Calibre phones home without asking, and offers to update itself Mark H Weaver
2015-03-23 17:12     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-03-24 19:44       ` Andreas Enge

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