Bart Martens <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 07:35:19AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Bart Martens <[email protected]> writes: >>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 05:09:00PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>>>> note that free software interfaces to proprietary cloud platforms are >>>> frequently used to manipulate the data in those platforms including >>>> pull data *out* of those platforms. It would be quite ironic if we >>>> refused to include in the distribution the tools required to pull >>>> one's data out of non-free platforms. >>> An interface to facebook or to twitter or to the internet movie >>> database or to websites with stock quotes may be freely redistributed >>> but "requires software outside of the distribution to function". Why >>> do we make exceptions depending on how "ironic" things are ? >> Because, similar to how all evil plans for taking over the world should >> be run past a fifth grader first, all grand principles of ideology >> should be checked for whether their actual outcomes are silly. > Which is why I'm open to change debian-policy or move packages from main > to contrib depending on what's the least silly. Good point. :) Sorry, I was being too snarky. Although changing the wording is, I think, a bit more complicated; I commented in a different part of the thread. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
