On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 03:28:56 +0100 pribib wrote: > From bill's statements, developers as it stands have the ability to > decide what kind of cultural works their users can access based on > their own personal level of support for free culture. Personal > political opinions of individual developers should not be imposed on > users.
youre really reading too much into this - this is not an issue of anyone imposing their will on anyone else - it is simply the case that some package was removed from the repos - the reason why that was done is not very important really - packages come and go routinely - maybe some users nagged him about it incessantly for two weeks and he removed it just to shut them up - that would only be a problem if other people raised counter-complaints about that - i assume no one did so at the time; so thats how it stands today the only hard rules there are say only what software parabola will not distribute - nothing says that parabola must distribute any software at all - when a package is blacklisted, there should be some valid reason given and that will allow someone at some later time to determine whether it was strictly necessary or not and what, if anything, was done to liberate it; but any package can be removed at any time for any reason - if that package is useful and is meets the FSDG, it could possibly be re-added again at any later time; but there no imperative to do so for any package outside the base system above all though, it is not even possible for a parabola dev to impose anything upon users - the most striking reason why that should be clear is that the PKGBUILD for every package that is or was ever in parabola is still available in the arch and parabola git repos for all of eternity for anyone to grab and build themselves - even most of the pre-built binaries are there - it is not possible to prevent anyone from building and installing any package - the most the dev who removed that package imposed on anyone was that he was no longer going to build that package for them there is only a problem when something is introduced that should not be there - simply removing something that otherwise *could* be there is not a real problem - it is, at most, a minor inconvenience to those who use it - if there are enough of them, they can speak louder to get it put back in _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
