From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Calibre phones home without asking, and offers to update itself Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:12:23 +0100 Message-ID: <87oanjhc3s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20150321193352.27371.24649@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <874mpd9e8r.fsf_-_@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54347) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ya5tv-0005ry-55 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 13:12:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ya5tr-00080l-1z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 13:12:31 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58674) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ya5tq-00080h-Vl for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 13:12:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <874mpd9e8r.fsf_-_@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Sun, 22 Mar 2015 12:41:08 -0400") 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Mark H Weaver 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=E2=80=99.