Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 01:52:18PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Over the years, d-legal has discussed a number of packages which > automatically download non-free software, under some circumstances. > > The obvious example is web browsers with extension repositories > containing both free and

Re: Bug#874295: Not a bug

Ian Jackson writes: > Ben Finney writes ("Re: Bug#874295: Not a bug"): > > (Yes, I think a web browser should not download and execute > > arbitrary JavaScript either. That one problem remains unaddressed is > > not a justification for the same problem

Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 01:52:18PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > I would like to establish a way to prevent this. Why would the project do that, though? > (There are even whole Debian derivatives who have as one of their > primary goals, preventing this. Good. > We should aim for most of the

Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main

This mail is going to a lot of lists. I have set the followups to d-policy because ultimately this is hopefully going to result in a change to policy. Over the years, d-legal has discussed a number of packages which automatically download non-free software, under some circumstances. The

Re: Bug#874295: Not a bug

Ben Finney writes ("Re: Bug#874295: Not a bug"): > Thomas Pierson writes: > > It's only if a user want to connect to a particular external service > > that a plugin file is downloaded and used. > > That is still a problem, IMO. It would be best if the program did not do