From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: wrapping up the Newmoon Browser package Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:19:39 -0500 Message-ID: <87wolrlgnd.fsf@netris.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54114) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gxHJq-0006P9-Hf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:21:15 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gxHJp-000644-Jx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:21:14 -0500 Received: from world.peace.net ([64.112.178.59]:38236) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gxHJp-0005i6-Fa for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:21:13 -0500 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 Cc: guix-devel Hi swedebugia, swedebugia writes: >> Can you find evidence that >> Pale Moon has made such a commitment for their add-ons repository? > > I did not find any such statements. I did find non-free addons though. > E.g. FireShot listed here: > https://addons.palemoon.org/extensions/tools-and-utilities/ > > It took some time to find a non-free one, so I guess they are rare like > 1% of the total or less. Thanks for looking into it. The Guix project is committed to following the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines (GNU FSDG). This includes a commitment to not refer to third-party repositories except those committed to including only free software. Therefore, given your findings, a prerequisite to including Pale Moon/Newmoon in Guix would be to modify it so that it does not steer users toward addons.palemoon.org, and never suggests installing nonfree plugins, etc. The GNU FSDG states: A free system distribution must not steer users towards obtaining any nonfree information for practical use, or encourage them to do so. The system should have no repositories for nonfree software and no specific recipes for installation of particular nonfree programs. Nor should the distribution refer to third-party repositories that are not committed to only including free software; even if they only have free software today, that may not be true tomorrow. Programs in the system should not suggest installing nonfree plugins, documentation, and so on. For instance, a free system distribution must not contain browsers that implement EME, the browser functionality designed to load DRM modules. https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html Regards, Mark