❦ 7 août 2017 18:12 GMT, "Dr. Bas Wijnen" <wij...@debian.org> :
>> We have all kind of software advertising non-free services. Search for >> "Google" or "Amazon". The comparison is even unfair as the service >> advertised here is available as free software (not the case for most >> services from Amazon and Google we advertise). > > If other packages are worse, that means they should be fixed, not that this > should be allowed. > >> Example: [s3cmd] > > How is this not in contrib? This software is useless without the non-free > service (which is also software, and it is not in main) from Amazon. Policy > even mentions as an example for things in contrib: wrapper packages or other > sorts of free accessories for non-free programs. That's exactly what > this is. > > I didn't know that this was in main, and I expect most others to not know > either. But I don't think they should be. I wouldn't expect this to be > controversial, but it seems that it is, given that you suggest they obviously > belong in main? > > To be clear: the sort of software (of this type) I expect in main is like > mumble: it connects to a server, and you can connect to a commercially hosted > server if you want to, but you can also run your own server, because it's free > software. If the mumble server would not be free, and the only way to use the > client was to connect to a commercial server, mumble should not be in main. > > As I wrote, I expected there to be consensus on this. Am I incorrect about > that? In this case, free S3 implementations exist (like Swift, available in Debian). However, it is easy to find other packages interacting with proprietary services without a free implementation. For example, any package interacting with Google Cloud (golang-google-cloud package). -- Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good. -- Samuel Johnson
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