> However, when I tried to search snap packages using "snap find" command, it > DOES return (suspected) non-free software such as spotify. I also tried to > run "snap find google" and got a long list of suspected non-free software > related to Google's SaaSS. > > Though Debian users cannot install such non-free software from the Gnome > Software's graphical front end, it's still considered a potential freedom > issue, because users can be lured to try to use those non-free software.
Thanks for checking. It was certainly considered a freedom issue when the same problem was discovered in Trisquel. However, unlike the GNU FSDG[1], which prohibits guiding users toward non-free software, the DFSG[2] only seems considered with the license of software included in Debian. Although it is a tool for installing proprietary software, Snap itself is under a free license, so Debian might accept it as they do Pocket and Firefox's recommendation of non-free addons. [1] https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html [2] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
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