Re: [Trisquel-users] Freedom issues with PPAs

[gnuser]

PPA is dangerous because you are installing whatever the person who manages  
the PPA puts there for you to install. You can't be sure if the software you  
are installing is trustworthy, because it's as if you were installing a  
binary instead of compiling from source.
OpenShot for example has a official PPA, so you trust it as much as you would  
trust a deb file that the maker would provide. It's better than for example  
GIMP 2.8 PPA, that is run by someone who has no affiliation with GIMP team.
You can still take a look at the code and all of that, but usually you need  
to trust the PPA manager.
As for free software, the software remais Free both in the PPA and out of it.