From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dimakakos Dimos Subject: Re: Regarding freedom issues Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 12:50:05 +0200 Message-ID: <87ftrsnz8i.fsf@teknik.io> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33088) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h3fw9-00038v-TH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 07:51:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h3fw8-0001ni-J0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 07:51:13 -0400 Received: from mail.teknik.io ([5.79.72.163]:60283) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h3fw8-0001gd-65 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 07:51:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: 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: swedebugia , Guix-devel swedebugia writes: > Hi. > I had the idea of integrating guix more with GNU when it comes to packages with freedom issues. > > The idea is to add to guix a way to inform the user that the package they just searched for is not included in guix because of freedom issues. > > The idea is that when we refuse a package to be included we add it with a short reason to this list. > > Something like this > (issues > (package odoo > (reason "trapping users by withholding update scripts, see gnu.org/link.to.article" > (alternatives '(dolibarr tryton smbledger ledger hledger gnucash))) > > This makes it clear to the user that they can scratch the itch and fix the problems by contacting upstream, fork or whatever or choose a better alternative. > > What do you think? > -- > Sent from my k-9 mail for Android. I like this as well. We could then make lists of alternatives, so they could be resusable in similar contexts. The thing is this seems quite a bit of work, but I think it's in the right direction. Maybe reuse some catalogs of "non-freedom respecting" software is doable.