On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 23:05:46 +0100 Adam wrote: > It is my understanding that if packages do not support free culture > then they should be removed from Parabola too, regardless of FSDG.
that is correct - the FSDG only requires non-executable binaries to be freely distributable On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 23:05:46 +0100 Adam wrote: > The fact that Warsow is permitted seems to suggest distributing > nonfree assets doesn't matter. i would not say that program was ever "permitted" - the issue on the bug tracker that you quoted from, exists to evaluate that program and remove if it does in fact include non-free files - these things sneak in from arch often and they take time to evaluate - a little non-copyleft artwork is understandably not at the highest priority On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 23:05:46 +0100 Adam wrote: > These inconsistent and seemingly contradictory viewpoints makes it > difficult to report bugs correctly and use the OS as intended. What > is the Parabola stance on this? the definitive answer to that question is what is written on parabola's mission statement https://wiki.parabola.nu/Parabola_Social_Contract "Parabola is Free Culture: All documentation and cultural works included in products of the Parabola project are Free Culture, with the exceptions of: works stating a viewpoint, invariant sections and cover texts. All documentation and cultural works created by or for Parabola are Free Culture, with no exceptions." the strict reading of this hinges on the word "included" - the idea is to avoid distributing anything that is not "free software" or "free culture"; but not to prevent anyone from doing anything - the blacklisting of that one game was probably not to satisfy of the above "promise" but one of the devs wanted to do it anyways in my opinion, i would draw the line between programs that actively index and/or lead you directly to non-free software or media and those that merely allow them to be used if users acquires them on their own - the dev who blacklisted that one game obviously drew that line a bit more broadly - for one thing, the FSDG explicitly forbids leading users directly to non-free software - to me, that includes most third-party package managers, AUR helpers, docker/appimage/flatpack/snaps, and so on; but parabola has those, and there is an open issue about removing or filtering them - i would say that whatever the decision is regarding those should be carried over to media files as well; but that is still up in the air _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
