From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>
To: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>,
58147@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58147: FAAC considered nonfree by Debian and Parabola
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 21:22:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ae29a2b06f5f4b608d0a70cc3af2bb0932a5d03.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220928191204.388f7411@primary_laptop>
Am Mittwoch, dem 28.09.2022 um 19:12 +0200 schrieb Denis 'GNUtoo'
Carikli:
> Hi,
>
> The faac package is considered nonfree in Debian[1] and also in
> Parabola because according to the Parabola blacklist faac "is a
> GPL'ed package, but has non free code that can't be distributed under
> the GPL"[2].
>
> The path chosen by Parabola (and probably most other FSDG compliant
> or 100% free distributions) was to make the packages not depend on
> faac.
Assuming one can clearly point out the non-free sources, the Guix way
would be removing those. If they can't easily be separated, then yeah,
it has to go.
> A quick search in the Parabola packages list[3] can show some of the
> packages having been (re)built without faac support[4].
A list of packages relevant in Guix can be given using `guix refresh -l
faac'.
Cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-28 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-28 17:12 bug#58147: FAAC considered nonfree by Debian and Parabola Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2022-09-28 19:22 ` Liliana Marie Prikler [this message]
2022-09-28 22:41 ` Mark H Weaver
2022-10-16 12:00 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
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