What about Gnash in Guix?

What about Gnash in Guix?

[znavko]

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Do you think flash-services are good or not?
I am asking about gnash in guix, cause there is one necessary service, that must work on a home PC, but no any flash-player possible in IceCat under GuixSD.
Want to know about developers' plans to port Gnash to Guix?

znavko.

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Re: What about Gnash in Guix?

[swedebugia]

On 2018-12-10 19:47, znavko@tutanota.com wrote:
> Do you think flash-services are good or not?

Not. Often both non-free and dangerous.
I personally avoid it at all costs. The only places left in my sphere
that even mentions flash is the government backed broadcast corporation
SVT on their webpage. But they implemented html5 so it is no longer
needed and  I download the videoes regardless with youtube-dl.

> 
> I am asking about gnash in guix, cause there is one necessary service,
> that must work on a home PC, but no any flash-player possible in
> IceCat under GuixSD.
> 
> Want to know about developers' plans to port Gnash to Guix?

You are free to package it. I would most probably never use it.

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Cheers 
Swedebugia

Re: What about Gnash in Guix?

[Leo Famulari]

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On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 11:24:28AM -0800, swedebugia@riseup.net wrote:
> On 2018-12-10 19:47, znavko@tutanota.com wrote:
> > Do you think flash-services are good or not?
> 
> Not. Often both non-free and dangerous.

GNU, in general, does not entertain a concept of services being free or
not:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.en.html

Of course, within Guix we can make our own choices within the FSDG [0].

Since Gnash is free software (and a GNU project!), I think we should
offer it. So far nobody has taken the time to package it, probably
because Flash sites are steadily disappearing. Contributions are always
welcome! :)

[0]
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.en.html

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