bug#34399: gnome-online-accounts recommends non-free software/service

bug#34399: gnome-online-accounts recommends non-free software/service

[Raghav "RG" Gururajan]

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Hi,

I just found out in my GuixSD that gnome-online-accounts in system settings is showing options for Google, Facebook, etc.

Regards,
Raghav Gururajan


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bug#34399: gnome-online-accounts recommends non-free software/service

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

"Raghav \"RG\" Gururajan" <rg@mail.raghavgururajan.net> skribis:

> I just found out in my GuixSD that gnome-online-accounts in system settings is showing options for Google, Facebook, etc.

gnome-online-accounts provides options for the services you mention; it
does not refer to non-free software, though.

The notion of “non-free” cannot be applied to a service.  A service
might be SaaSS (“service as a software substitute” as RMS puts it), but
that’s not the case here because gnome-online-accounts runs locally and
interacts with the services via HTTP.

Of course these services are a serious threat to user privacy.  However,
Guix is committed to the FSDG and in that context there is no valid
reason to exclude or modify gnome-online-accounts in Guix.

Thanks,
Ludo’.