On 05/12/2011 02:58 AM, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > It is fine if people use facebook/twitter/flickr/youtube/whatever to > promote DebConf. If it is clear they are doing it on their own, it is > NOT DebConf (or Debian) doing it. > > But our website should NOT ever include a non-free service. Either there > is a free one, then link/use that, or DebConf provides its own. One of > the two. If none works, then leave a feature out of the website. > > (That also includes any kind of JS or whatever which might be > included. Either we legally can distribute it, or we should not have it) > > Sorry, but we are a free conference, promoting free and open - not > closed-source stuff.
I wholeheartedly agree with Joerg here.
Debian is about freedom. There is already more than enough pressure on
people to submit to joining centralized, non-free, corporate gatekeepers
of culture and communications. We should make sure that our work does
not encourage or support this kind of behavior.
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