From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mathieu Lirzin Subject: Re: [PATCH] ui: 'package->recutils' serializes the source field. Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 02:15:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87vazcce0a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160805145804.26753-1-david@craven.ch> <87y44af52m.fsf@gmail.com> <87shuit01e.fsf@gnu.org> <87eg60g79l.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8gog154.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33395) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bWYE2-0006hU-Va for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2016 20:15:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bWYDy-0007Ch-PU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2016 20:15:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: (David Craven's message of "Sun, 7 Aug 2016 23:33:15 +0200") 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: David Craven Cc: guix-devel , Alex Kost David Craven writes: > Quoting FSDG: > A free system distribution must not steer users towards obtaining any > nonfree information for practical use, or encourage them to do so. > > We are not steering or encouraging users to do any thing by displaying > the source url of the tarball, That's an interpretation of it. I think that point deserves a discussion on mailing list, before including such change in Guix UI. For some background on the 'guix build --source' issue, Please read the full thread on https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2013-09/msg00001.html. >we are merely providing factual non-opinionated information. IMO, Distributing software is always opinionated. :) -- Mathieu Lirzin