On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:20:16 +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: >> And I'm not saying that this kind of things shouldn't be discussed, on >> the contrary, I'd keep tracking any application that is susceptible of >> changing its mind. Also, CC'ing to "debian-legal" could be a good idea. > > Thanks. I have contacted debian-legal. > > And no, acting after those web APIs break is a bad idea.
But why have they to break? Afterall, it can "break" any package. > It is the same as depending on a non-free library. In the future more > packages will start depend on non-free web API, and a single change by > non-free provider will wipe out a major chunk of Debian. It will be very > costly then. Look what happened with xBSD family -- they were locked out > of the market for 3 years due to legal battle, and had to rewrite major > chunk of OS. > So we must act before bad things happen. I can't make any additional comments on this because it's still unclear to me what's the involved package(s) we are talking about and why you are so afraid it becomes dependant on a non-free API :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
