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Re: Regarding freedom issues
From: |
Dimakakos Dimos |
Subject: |
Re: Regarding freedom issues |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 12:50:05 +0200 |
swedebugia <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi.
> I had the idea of integrating guix more with GNU when it comes to packages
> with freedom issues.
>
> The idea is to add to guix a way to inform the user that the package they
> just searched for is not included in guix because of freedom issues.
>
> The idea is that when we refuse a package to be included we add it with a
> short reason to this list.
>
> Something like this
> (issues
> (package odoo
> (reason "trapping users by withholding update scripts, see
> gnu.org/link.to.article"
> (alternatives '(dolibarr tryton smbledger ledger hledger gnucash)))
>
> This makes it clear to the user that they can scratch the itch and fix the
> problems by contacting upstream, fork or whatever or choose a better
> alternative.
>
> What do you think?
> --
> Sent from my k-9 mail for Android.
I like this as well. We could then make lists of alternatives, so they
could be resusable in similar contexts.
The thing is this seems quite a bit of work, but I think it's in the
right direction. Maybe reuse some catalogs of "non-freedom respecting"
software is doable.